PiPlanter 1

The first version of this project is done! Continuation of the work found: here This page is a “project page” that contains every bit of work I’ve done leading toward this final post. EDIT: Update 1 – Transplanting Plants: I move the plants from the grid to pots. Update 2 – System overhaul: Update the…

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PiPlanter | Moisture detector and a few other updates

Long time viewers will remember when this idea was conceived two Novembers ago, but essentially it’s a way to detect the relative moisture of a substance. The principal is the same as in the above post, but this time, I made it bigger and attached it to a Raspberry Pi. The reason this is essential, is because I recently purchased a 12v DC pump capable of…

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PiPlanter | Going from analog data to the web using python, mysql and php

Here’s a video: Essentially, the adc reads an analog value and sends it to python. Python connects to a mysql database and adds the data to that. Once the user accesses the php script, a table, containing all of the values, is rendered. First of all, you’ll need to make a mysql table with the correct specifications:

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