This is the home page for the Automted Grenhouse vertical challenge Blog. Hopefully it will clean the project up a little and make it easy to follow, I will be updating it as the project progresses.
Take a look at the challenge summary:
Automated Green House Blog: #Competition Summary - November 2015
The Blogs I think you will find interesting can be split into three sections, Lots of youtube video's on how to make this stuff yourself.
Everything Is released under GNU or similar, so you can copy it and modify at your own risk.
The Vertical Challenge Basics
Take a look at the video to see where I am testing the technology, Blog 1 and 2 talk about the project aims in more detail.
Automated Fish Feeders
Fish feeding is an important factor in aquaponics but often overlooked due to complexity or price, these set of blogs will cover how to optimise the feeding times and amounts using openloop control, feedback control and feed forward control.
For more information on how to build the control systems, the feeders themselves and the general theory see blogs 3 to 7.
Ec meter
The strength of the nutrients we are using in vegetable growing matter quite a lot, It is useful if we can measure the strength of the growing solution. Take a look at blog 10 to see how we implement a cheap way to measure PPM / EC.
Aquaponics Dosing
This one is up and working, It will be uploaded as soon as the content is written
Some general arduino related content
I find it useful to measure the load on the arduino memory and keep a reading of the uptime.
Blogs 9 and 9.1 cover this.
Other Blogs
The titles here should give you enough information about the general topic of the Blog:
Blog:1 - Motivation
Blog:2 - The Youtube Walkaround
Blog:3 - Fish Feeding of the Future
Blog:4 - Building an automated feeder
Blog:5 - Vision Based Feeder Information
Blog:5.1 - Updated Basic Vision Code
Blog:5.2 - Vision based feeding Explination
Blog:6 - Raspbery Pi and OpenCv the Easy Way
Blog:6.1 - Detecting Things OpenCv and raspberry pi
Blog:7 - Arduino Temperature Compensating Feeder
Blog:8 - Water Usage
Blog:8.1 - Water Usage [LCD and Uno]
Blog:8.2 - Water Meter Calibration
Blog:9 - Some Generic Arduino Tricks - SRam - UpTime
Blog:9.1 - Updated uptime counter
Blog:9.2 - Updated uptime counter LCD
Blog:9.3 - Arduino EEPROM [Has it ever been written]
Blog:9.3 - Tip for trimming arduino If statement times
Blog:10 - Three Dollar EC PPM Meter for MCU
Blog:10.1 - Update Code For Three Dollar EC PPM Meter for MCU
Blog:10.9 - EC Projects Using Cheap EC Implementation
Blog:11 - Self Optimising Automated Nutrient Doser
Blog:11.1 - Self Optimising Automated Nutrient Doser - EC Optimisation
Blog:12 - Pesticide Doser, Cheap DIY Mister
Blog:13.1 - PH Delivery, Organic Egg Shell Based [Mech Portion]
Blog:13.2 - PH Control: Measurement Portion
Blog:13.3 - PH Control: PH Probe LCD Readout + Gui
Blog:13.4 - PH Control: PH Probe LCD Readout + Gui + Probe Health Readout
Blog:13.9 - PH Probe Revival: Ultrasonic Cleaning
Blog:14 - CO2: Measurement
Blog:15 - When Things Go Wrong
Blog:16 - Human Urine and Hydroponics
Blog:17 - Automated Soil Moisture Measurement
Blog:17.2 - Prolonging Probe Life
Blog:18.1 - On-line Data Logging [data.sparkfun]
Blog:18.2 - Data Logging: SD Card
Blog:18.3 - On line data Viewer [arduino, Ethernet]
Blog:18.4 - Combining ALL Three Logs
Blog:20.1 - Toying with Chemical Analysis - Essential Nutrients
Blog:20.2 - Toying with Chemical Analysis - pH
Blog:25 - Growing: Planting Seeds and Experimentation
Blog:25.1 - Growing: Transplanting Seedlings]
Blog:25.2 - One Month Grow Comparison
Blog:30.1 - Colaboration: Aquaponics LAB
Blog:30.2 - Colaboration: Aquaponics LAB Time Lapse
Blog:30.3 - Collaboration: Vertical Farming Association
Blog:40.1 - Laser Cut Aquaponics Overview Infographics
Blog:901 - Honey Extractor Electrification
Blog: #Competition Summary - November 2015
Want to find something not listed: Search for Tag " adapted_greenhouse "
New 2019/2020 Blog Series
Seeding:
Dibbling Plate, Put those holes in the soil quickly
Drop seeder, Put those Seeds in the soil quickly
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