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  • 2015 Community Awards: Design Challenge of the Year

    element14 Community Awards Design Challenge of the Year Your vote is your voice! What do you get when you combine problems to solve, cutting edge electronic components and our element14 Community members? Design Challenges ! In partnership with industry…
  • Silicon Labs and Vertical Farming

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    In this webinar Matt Saunders will introduce some of the Silicon Labs products suitable for the application of Vertical Farming . Covering Sensors, Microcontrollers and Wireless links this session will show how these products can be applied to Vertical...
  • Vertical Farming Design Challenge | Unboxing the Kit

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  • element14 Community kicks off new design competition – The Vertical Farming Challenge

    15 individuals will use technology to create IoT-enabled indoor farms June 1, 2015 – CHICAGO – element14 , the world’s largest electronic design community, announces today the launch of its latest design competition – the Vertical Farming Challenge .…
  • All About Vertical Farming

    Vertical Farming Design Challenge About this Challenge Overview Video Prizes Terms and Conditions Kit List Interested in more information about Vertical Farming? Below are a list of links to more information about Vertical Farming, some industrial Vertical…
  • Vertical Farming Design Challenge

    Vertical Farming Design Challenge All About Vertical Farming Overview Video Prizes Terms and Conditions Kit List Background From Wikipedia According to current projections of population growth , the world population of humans will continue to grow until…
  • Vertical Farming: Winners Announced!

    Vertical Farming Design Challenge All About Vertical Farming Overview Video Prizes Terms and Conditions Kit List We challenged innovators of the world to build the farm of tomorrow to satisfy the needs of a rocketing human population – predicted to grow…
  • Maitake Mushroom Cloning - Procedure

    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 mycelium 2) Sterilize agar using pressure cooker 3) Obtain mushrooms for cloning and section…
  • Maitake Mushroom Cloning - Why?

    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 cycle…
  • Conclusion

    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 code…
  • Vertical Hydroponics - Blog 15: Final Update

    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. You don't have permission…
  • Modular Farm Blog: Post 18 – Final Post Grow# Modular Farm

    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 the closure…
  • Modular Farm Blog: Post 17 – Plant Growth

    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 reactive improvements…
  • Automated Green House Blog: #Competition Summary - November 2015

    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 for his…
  • Vertical Hydroponics - Blog 14: Web Interface Part 2

    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 text…
  • Automated Green  Blog:30.3 - Collaboration: Vertical Farming Association

    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 competition…
  • Automated Green  Blog:30.1 - Colaboration: Aquaponics LAB

    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 aquaponics control…
  • Automated Green  Blog:30.2 - Colaboration: Aquaponics LAB Time Lapse

    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: You don't have permission to edit metadata…
  • Automated Green  Blog:25.1 - Growing: Transplanting Seedlings

    So the seedlings have grown to a stage that they are ready for transplanting from the propagator to the aquaponics, hydroponics and soil systems. You don't have permission to edit metadata…