The DIY Smart Garden System

Take a tour of Do It Yourself Smart Gardening

My name is Cory, I’m a Technical Craftsman specializing in creative problem solving within electronics and software engineering.  Professionally, I’ve worked as an electronics engineer, a plastics fabricator, software engineer, an industrial laser technician, and, of course, a coffee barista.  I’ve spent the last several years working on a Smart Garden System project I named, hydroMazing.  I’m sharing my work with you because I would like to empower everyone who is interested in a “Smart” approach to gardening.

What we’ve covered so far:

• Why DIY when you could buy?
• What is a “Smart” Garden?
• Starting a Smart Indoor Garden
• Digging Deeper into Indoor Gardening
• Indoor Gardening: What can go wrong?
• Managing Nutrient Solution Systems
• Why Arduino when you can Pi?

Now that we have an understanding of what it takes to provide an optimum indoor growing environment we can start analyzing the cost-benefit of further optimizing and automating the system.  Please share with friends and follow to receive a notification when I publish the next section.

Add Raspberry Pi for Web Services ~ for remote access, notifications, data collection, and analytics.

Advanced Sensors ~  moisture probe, pH, E.C., carbon dioxide level, flow-rate, liquid, float (liquid level switch).

Advanced Nutrient Solution Management:  Using Dosing/Peristaltic Pumps.

Using a Raspberry Pi and USB Camera  Use Raspberry Pi to monitor or collect snapshots of the garden using a USB webcam.

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