Well Im back to making things and have a day a week to work on open source projects just for the fun of it [mainly farming tools], these are mechanical devices but electronics ones will soon follow As usual the designs are open source, link is...
Well Im back to making things, I have changed jobs and now have a day a week to work on open source projects just for the fun of it. Seeding takes time and is relatively boring, this dibble plate will mean I have more time to do fun things: www.youtu...
No signs of fruiting yet, although the mycelium has completely colonized the substrate.I'm going to lower the temperature to 60F and raise the lighting and humidity levels to hopefully kickstart the fruiting phase.
To get mushrooms to fruit, the mycelium need to propagate throughout a sizable amount of substrate. This substrate must have the nutrients the mycelium require to grow and multiply. The exact formula for this substrate is unknown, and is ...
Before I left for Sri Lanka in June, I started some clones in agar. This picture is after about 1 week of incubation.At the same time, I started some jar cultures of wood chips hoping they would be ready when I returned in July.They failed due ...
So, how do you clone a mushroom?Here are the steps I will use to hopefully produce my yummy little 'shrooms.1) Prepare petri dishes and agar growth media for mycelium2) Sterilize agar using pressure cooker3) Obtain mushrooms for cloning and section s...
What are mushrooms? Mushrooms are the fruit of a very complex organism. They are known for many useful products, including medicines and water treatment. Some mushrooms are very tasty, and some are toxic.If you search the web for "mushroom life...
There doesn't seem to be much technology involved in mushroom farming, so I think I'll try and invent some...Here is a pic of my second attempt at cloning a Maitake mushroom. This is one week of mycelium growth on agar mixed with wheat ...
Ive been working on some educational material for teaching, Here are the Results. This is not one of my usual hacking Posts but I think it is a good example of how the hacking tool-set [rapid prototyping] can be used to bring better projects int...
Today is a good day, The introduction of the 3rd Generation Pi is available! I cant wait to see what this does for the loop times of my vision based work on the pi. See the main page for other information: Automated Green House Blog's Home Page...
This will not be a very useful tip for 99% of your arduino projects, but if you are wanting to keep your code running as quick as possible without reverting to C its a handy tip to have. Ive got a few arduino projects going now where I need to ...
A Updated PH Probe, Now gives A Readout For Probe Life and a time alarm for when to Calibrate. DFRobot were nice enough to send me one of their pH pro MCU probes [Longer lasting] but this tutorial and code will work for any analog pH MCU meter [...
Here is a little Video comparing the growth of Hydroponics,Aquaponics and soil in low light conditions. the Light intensity here in the north of the uk during winter is so low that the plants grow at a very slow pace, it is interesting to see th...
In Aquaponics systems pH probes fail quickly, it is my belief that this is due to the probe membrane becoming blocked [just my theory, no proof to back it up]. If this is indeed the problem it stands to reason that we could extend the probe life by c...
So I suppose this blog post is very belated; however, I wished to sum up the events of the past few weeks and the total sum of the programming completed. Basically, I got stuck on the programming of the EZR32WG MCU. I tried to look through James's co...
Hi everybody, I don't have time for a real update, but I wanted to post a final picture of the plants in the system today.I also made a video demonstrating the system. players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
Hi vertical farmers,
In the previous post we discussed our lettuce growth.
In this final one, we are going to present the latest achievements and the overall results obtained over the last months. Therefore, this post is intended to be ...
Hi vertical farmers, In the previous post we published our repositories for Silicon Labs firmware and KiCad boards. In this post we will discuss the growth of our lettuces. This has been a very interesting learning process that lead to some...
Below is a breakdown and summary of the competition entry Adapted_Greenhouse.
So the competition is coming to an end, quite a sad day because this competition has become part of daily life. I would like to thank Element14, in particular Dave f...
Tonight I completed the last portion of this project that I will be able to get done before the submission deadline. I wrote a c++ program running on the BeagleBone Black that processes and saves the serial data from the Gateway to a text file. The t...
The Association of Vertical Farming [AVF]: Everyone in the competition has been lucky enough to receive some great products to get their grow under way will know a little bit about who the AVF are but for those of you on the blog but not in the compe...
This competition has been mainly the bloging about systems I already had implemented after some fine tuning, recently I found a relatively large group of collaborators around 30 miles from my home who have been working on open sourcing aquaponi...
One of the other collaborators from the aquaponics lab has recently started to build his own system, here is a time lapse of it under construction: www.youtube.com/watch We have learned a lot from building the "FAO recommended" aquapo...
So the seedlings have grown to a stage that they are ready for transplanting from the propagator to the aquaponics, hydroponics and soil systems. www.youtube.com/watch Germinated/planted : 20/10/2015Transplante...
I finished testing the communications between the BeagleBone Black Webserver and the Arduino controller using the EZR32WG 915MHz Wireless Starter Kits as a serial to wireless link. The current set up looks like the picture below:The Arduino is used f...
