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Automated Green House Blog:11 - Self Optimising Automated Nutrient Doser

m.ratcliffe

This Blog is about making a nutrient dosing system for hydroponics that is plug and play, I didnt quite get it to the full stage of plug and play with this version. But it is almost there. Because the change of nutrient strength of our systems can be...
- 22 Sep 2015
Automated Green House Blog:16 - Human Urine and Hydroponics

m.ratcliffe

There is a lot of people hungry in the world today this could be reduced by the application of technology. Lots of the main areas of food shortages have lots of sunlight and a surprising abundance of well water [even the sahara desert] the limiting f...
- 21 Sep 2015
Project: ferris farm post 15

shanesissons

long time no post i have been ill over the past week (flu) so i have not made any progress from my last post i have been attempting to work out code but i am getting nowhere i need one of 2 things to get this to work 1. somebody to te...
- 19 Sep 2015
Automated Green House Blog:10.1 - Update Code For Three Dollar EC PPM Meter for MCU

m.ratcliffe

This code is a slight update of the last one, updated:>Better Uptime Counter>LCD Shield>New Pin out Diagram>Restart Protected Calibration Details>EU and US Plug Calibrated Probe Also a quick update to the code so the calibration v...
- 19 Sep 2015
Morning update :)

sftwrngnr

Wow! A lot can change when a small-scale prototype fails. My daughter's rather whimsical design idea for configuring the vertical farm, and having a pump run off of gravity and rotation of the growing system was a non-starter after trying to just get...
- 19 Sep 2015
A Real-Life Vertical Farm!

wpolk

This week a few of us at element14 had the opportunity to visit Green Spirit Farms, a vertical farm in New Buffalo, Michigan, founded in 2011. It was a fascinating experience and we're appreciative of the time Milan and Dan Kluko spent with us. M...
- 18 Sep 2015
Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 6 Part 1 - SCADA

RWReynolds

In this blog post, I will present and explain the design and implementation of my vertical farming SCADA system. It will be presented in two parts with this post, Part 1, focused on system control. So, what is SCADA?SCADA (supervisory control an...
- 17 Sep 2015
Getting Started

Former Member

A quick start guide for how to get started developing with EFM32, EZR32, and Simplicity Studio. Also includes some basics on prototyping with sensors, and contains helpful documentation to aid in development. Attachments:community.element14.com...
- 17 Sep 2015
Vertical Hydroponics: Blog 5 - Web Interface

jamesod

Vertical Hydroponic System Web Interface Part 1: Last week I began work on replacing OpenHAB as the web interface. I still have a lot left to do, but I thought it best to give an update since I have gotten the basic framework working. I am using...
- 17 Sep 2015
The Plan Blog 5: End of Preparation Stages

Former Member

Intro: Hi everybody. Sorry for the delay in between posts. So without further delay lets continue. Base Frame Structure CompleteThe base frame of the structure, including the fish and sump tanks, is complete. I definitely underestimated the we...
- 17 Sep 2015
Modular Farm Blog: Post 7 - Vision System

jmbranco76

Hi vertical farmers, In the previous post we presented our image acquisition system capable of acquiring crop images and transmit them to our vision system.In this post we discuss the vision system at our current stage: the project stage.The sys...
- 17 Sep 2015
Automated Green House Blog:12 - Pesticide Doser, Cheap DIY Mister

m.ratcliffe

In one of my other blog video's I showed you my infestation of butterfly and caterpillars. It is a heavy infestation and will be a hard one to eradicate. This Blog will cover how to make a cheap DIY pesticide doser that will reach every smal...
- 16 Sep 2015
Update :)

sftwrngnr

Not much to report, other than doing a lot of reading on hydroponics. I'm going to the hydroponics store today or tomorrow, and going to home Depot to get some tubing and PVC pipe. Also taking the opportunity to purchase a compound miter saw, w...
- 16 Sep 2015
Automated Green House Blog:15 - When Things Go Wrong

m.ratcliffe

The last test comparison has come to an end and it gave a chance to simulate a water system failure. The video below shows the effects of water loss for 24 hours both immediately and after a 48 hour period for NFT and media beds. You may be surprised...
- 13 Sep 2015
Automated Green House Blog's Home Page [Updated: October 2019]

m.ratcliffe

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...
- 13 Sep 2015
Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 5 - Lighting

RWReynolds

In this blog post, I will cover my lighting system design and implementation. Available Lighting choices:Through my research, I have determined that there are four basic types of artificial lighting used for indoor plant cultivation. These areFl...
- 13 Sep 2015
Automated Green House Blog:9.1 - Updated uptime counter

m.ratcliffe

This doesnt really deserve to be a blog, So it is 9.1 and a supplement to blog 9:Automated Green House Blog:9 - Some Generic Arduino Tricks - SRam - UpTime Here is an updated uptime counter that makes life a little simplerHeader 1/* This S...
- 12 Sep 2015
Overview of the project and work

ochikov

Hello Everybody, I will post my overview of the project. I managed to do a lot of work that is described there. I still wait RF modules and Ethernet Shield. Since then I managed to connect all the sensors to one Arduino Uno and start making test...
- 10 Sep 2015
Modular Farm Blog: Post 6 - Image Acquisition System

jmbranco76

Hi vertical farmers, In the previous post we presented the key issues related to our Artificial LED lighting system.In this post we will talk about our image acquisition system to monitor and control plant growth, introducing the image acquisiti...
- 9 Sep 2015
Help needed with EZR32WG and EFM32

ochikov

Hello, From about 3-4 days I have try to exlpore the kits. All I've done is this: 1. I managed to play example of Simplicity Studio tx-rx with EZR32WG 868 MHz kit with two nodes.2. I managed to run Simplicity Studio energy monitoring with k...
- 9 Sep 2015
Project: ferris farm post 14

shanesissons

Hi guys last post was abit basic so I will give some more updates here Firstly Seeds have arrived and I have started testing 2 different germination methods I wont be using these plants in the official tests these are just for abit of lea...
- 8 Sep 2015
Vertical Hydroponics: Blog 4 - Liners and Germination Section

jamesod

Another week of building has come and gone. I was unfortunately extremely busy again this week, but I was able to squeeze in a good amount of time to make some progress. I have also tweaked the design a bit. These changes will result in a more usable...
- 8 Sep 2015
Project: ferris farm post 13

shanesissons

Hand written code here is my basic idea for the code to be run every 5 minutes or so If temp is above x activate fan 1 (relay)if temp is below x deactivate fan 1 if humidity is above x activate fan ...
- 7 Sep 2015
Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 4 - Nutrient Feed System

RWReynolds

OK, so I've realized that my current blog format might not allow me to complete the 15 required posts, as they are quite time-consuming to create. So I am going to shorten them, post more frequently and try to focus each one on a single area of devel...
- 6 Sep 2015
Start playing with the kits to build monitoring system

ochikov

Hello everybody,Today I managed to start playing with all the stuff that I receive. My goal is now to start building the monitoring system. I suddenly found that some stuff is missing from my package and also in the invoice documents that I receive. ...
- 5 Sep 2015