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  • Automated Green House Blog:7 -  Arduino Temperature Compensating Feeder

    m.ratcliffe
    This Update contains the wiring diagram and code for the temperature compensated feeder. This code is enough for you to make a unit to test if it works for you. I am pulling my time of day from another MCU running in the greenhouse, I advice wiring i...

  • Project: ferris farm post 9

    shanesissons
    {gallery} post 9Parts have started to arrive !! I have now started a dry run building the design so far i haveinstalled the PSU installed the fans1st coat of varnish on the woodnailed and glued the sides and backinstalled the legs test fit the m...

  • Automated Green House Blog:6 -  Raspbery Pi and OpenCv the Easy Way

    m.ratcliffe
    It it crazy Just How much miss information there is about opencv and the Raspberry pi, many tutorials will guide you thru a installation process that takes 12 hours+ and has library's linked complexly. Opencv 2.4.1 [CV2] is available in the defa...

  • Automated Green House Blog:5 - Vision Based Feeder Information

    m.ratcliffe
    Well I got my Competition Kit, Wow!! A lot of the components in the kits are a little smaller than what I'm used to working with, but damn that is a lot of stuff and the packaging is great. The next few tutorials after this will be on projects with t...

  • Modular Farm Blog: Post 3 - Automatic Nutrient Dispenser

    jmbranco76
    Hi vertical farmers,We will use our third post to justify our automatic nutrient dispenser implementation and assumptions.On hydroponic systems the plants are fed uniquely via the nutritive solution. This cultivation mode is much less tolerant to fau...

  • More of the same - Week 3 - Blog 3

    Former Member
    Update on kits: We have received one box of goodies - some are still missing. Hoping to receive them soon! Civil work: Its going on slowly due to other commitments as well. Plan to finish this and plant seeds this week. Still confused between LE...

  • Blog 2.25: Busy Busy Week Planning

    Former Member
    Hi Everyone, We are hard at work with our designs, and I want to let you know that things are going well. We are having a problem with one of our circuit boards we ordered online (missing pieces) so meanwhile, we have been planning out our new s...

  • Soy Beans Man.... Soy Beans

    Former Member
    *edited*Okay, so still working on the other blog I said I was working on last week.(Have to change stuff maybe ) However, I was having this conversation with a friend about soy beans, and it turns out they grow really well in minimal sunlight, nutrie...

  • Vertical Hydroponics: Blog 2 - PumpControl

    jamesod
    Part 1: Pump Control A successful vertical hydroponic system will require absolute control over its nutrient solution. In the end, this comes down to control over liquid pumps using feedback from sensors. This project will use two different kind...

  • Use of LEDs in vertical farming

    shanesissons
    Came across this site post was an interesting read so i thought i would share it with you all about using LEDs for plant growth  Plant Productivity in Response to LED Lighting

  • Automated Green House Blog:4 - Building an automated feeder

    m.ratcliffe
    This Is a simple blog showing you how to make the mechanical portion of a fish feeder using easily obtained parts and a couple of hand tools: www.youtube.com/watch Specs: www.youtube.com/watch20mm:-federate [need to measure this]-can h...

  • First blog

    Former Member
    We the team of “Chiraharita”  (Evergreen in sanskrit) thank element 14, Silicon labs and Würth Elektronik for choosing our proposal for the vertical farming design challenge.Currently, the team has started off with the design of mechanical struc...

  • Project: ferris farm post 8

    shanesissons
    Today is going to be an update on what i have been doing over the past 5 days firstly i have been looking at the kit and what parts i am going to use for each task The sensor puckI will use this for realtime testing while programming the board The wi...

  • Automated Green House Blog:3 - Fish Feeding of the Future

    m.ratcliffe
    With not having the Competition Kit arrive yet, this blog will be about some of the other projects I am working on relating to automation. See the main Blog for updates: Automated Green House Blog's Home Page  Some Basic Information:&n...

  • Got the kit... most of it :)

    sftwrngnr
    So the way cool (OK, very plain looking brown cardboard box) came on the equally boring and brown UPS truck yesterday.  It was waiting for me when I got home.  My daughter and I opened it to inventory the electronic goodness therein.  ...

  • Look What Came today!!!

    Former Member
    So, I am working on finishing up a new blog about how my plant choice will affect the design and finishing my design, which will be posted as soon as I find out what plant I can use. Right now, I am hoping to choose peas, pak choi, or leafy greens. A...

  • Modular Farm Blog: Post 2 - Hydroponic System

    jmbranco76
    Hi vertical farmers,On our second post we present the hydroponic system prototype that we will be using during the course of this challenge. It has been a long and hard week, but worth it!So, in our previous post we described the top level of the sys...

  • Week 2 Balance Post

    Former Member
    Basically, there is a weight on one end connected to a “loading dock” where the fertilizer trickles from above. When the balance is even, a circuit is completed with the balance being a switch. This then sends information to the microcontroller to tu...

  • Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 2

    RWReynolds
    Hello again! Welcome to the second installment of my challenge blog.  Please bear with me on the formatting of these posts. These online editors often present me with problems.Keeping with the structure I set forth in my last blog post, her...

  • The Plant Blog 1: New Mini Plant Design Part 1

    Former Member
    Hi everybody, Last blog, I wrote about our pH situation. The next topic I will topic about is the design of the system itself; specifically water circulation. This is a huge topic for this project, and I will have to split it up into two sections to...

  • Project: ferris farm post 7

    shanesissons
    Parts List Here I will go through the complete parts list that will be ordered for the ferris farmand the costs of each part part namecost  8mm pvc tube£3.328mm to 4mm pipe reducer£2.494mm tubing£5.97misting nozzles£3.898 channel relay...

  • Preparing hardware - Week 2 - Blog 2

    Former Member
    Hope all the participants are having a good time. This week was a busy week for us. The hardware has been ordered for germination chamber 1) Am industrial rack 3'X2' in area. Six rows vertically2) Each stack to have 3 CFL tubes for lighting...

  • Project: ferris farm post 6

    shanesissons
    Making the frame Materials 1.2m by 2.4m OSB woodItemCost GBP1.2 by 2.4m OSB wood£1312mm wood dowel£42m gutter half pipe£5plumbing pipe clips£1.504 reclaimed metal legsFREE I have decided to use OSB wood for this project although it is ...

  • Nutrients, nutrients everywhere

    sftwrngnr
    So I've noticed that several of the challengers already have experience with hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics. I... do not. So, I've done some due diligence, and decided that I'm going to go with General Hydroponics "Flora Series" of hydroponic...

  • Project power measurement

    sftwrngnr
    I've been thinking about how to measure the power usage of this project, since that is one of the design requirements, and I've decided that what I'm going to do is utilize a separate measurement and logging circuit so that the actual process of meas...