In a project reminiscent of Botanicalls, Randy Sarafan has created a system where a water reservoir rejuvenates his plant when it runs dry. From the maker:
Plants liven up any space by adding a sense of airiness and life. That is – of course – when you don’t forget to water them, and they shrivel up and die. I am very bad at remembering to water plants. That is why I built this self-watering plant to do it for me. Using a soil sensor, and an Arduino-controlled water pump, I have created a system that will never forget to do it. Instead of remembering to water my plants when the soil goes dry, I only have to remember to once and a while refill the water reservoir. In this way, I have decreased my obligation to these plants and put it off to a much later date. Perhaps further iterations of this device can be connected to a rain barrel so that I won’t even have to worry about refilling my reservoir, and the entire system can be fully automated.
[via Electronics-Lab Blog]
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um… you miss the whole point of having plants…
…and you miss the whole point of playing with an arduino :)
(no offense meant)
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Sweet. Having scabbed a peristaltic pump from an inkjet printer I was thinking about doing this only yesterday. Ideally I’d do it for vegetables.
@Plant_Lover: I get what you mean but I also know that my lifestyle doesn’t support a plant’s needs so a device like this makes it possible to enjoy and benefit from having plants around without them dying. Seems reasonable to me.
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Here’s my effort – it includes arduino code and code to provide live monitoring via a web based graph:
http://theon.github.com/plant-watering-with-arduino.html
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