Smart Gardening!

RE: Smart Gardening!

theusbblaster — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:30:33 GMT

Hello Vimarsh

I like your project a lot (it was the first practical project for the Vidor I had observed other than clock signal generation), but I still didn't understand the need to purchase the Vidor 4000 for it. I mean, the MKR WiFi 1010 costs less, and connects to WiFi along with BLE, and if incorporated into a real greenhouse, HDMI wouldn't be reliable to sync up hundreds of Vidors and Blynk or ThingSpeak would actually be more efficient and beneficial than HDMI (due to low power consumption and WiFi's fast data transfer). Also, try instead to use VidorPeripherals library with your sensors, as it can help create multiple comm interfaces (SPI,I2C,UART,etc.) Another suggestion, try to include a heatsink as the FPGA can get hot. One last thing, if possible, use Adafruit's STEMMA soil sensor as it includes a temp. compensated chip and can tell soil temperature as well as moisture concentration up till 2000, as well as a TIP120 transistor and submersible pump.

Cheers

The USB Blaster

RE: Smart Gardening!

dubbie — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 23:44:24 GMT

Vimarsh,

This is an excellent project, especially to someone like me who doesn't really understand most of what you are discussing, although I do know what a garden is. I would like to know more about the connecting to web pages, which you say is easy, but it is only easy when you know how. If like me, you don't know, then it is really hard. One day I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.

Dubbie

RE: Smart Gardening!

DAB — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:27:32 GMT

Could you elaborate on why you chose to use the FPGA and how you incorporated it into the project?

Also, you said you were using other sensor on the board along with the moisture sensor. How are you using the data and what do you expect to do with the data?

DAB