Well, this is just a DIY project started due to lazzyness for watering plant. While planning to make automated system to water plants, I came across Arduino open hardware development board which is an excellent place to start, along with esp8266 wifi module which made more room to additional functionalitues like: NTP sync with DS1307. This automated gardening system waters plants every alternate days (as I have set this way.)
Currently working on, which is in Progress: watering the plants only when they’re thirsty, turning on supplemental lights based on how much natural sunlight is received, and alerting me if the temperature drops below a plant-healthy level
I am open to constructive criticism, but go easy because just about everything in this project was a first for me.
For a brief introduction to this project, i am in process of creating a introduction video which will take few days to go live.
The following list covers the major parts I used in the build.
- LCD 16x2
- DS1307 RTC
- ESP8266-12e
- Arduino mini
- 12v motor pump
- 5v Relay
- 3.3 & 5 voltage regulator
- 74HC595 shift register
- optocoupler 817b
- 12v wall adapter
The schematic below shows the wiring of the board.
| package | Version |
|---|---|
| RTClib | 1.2.0 |
| NewPing | 1.8 |
| LiquidCrystal595 | |
| esp8266 | 2.4.1 |
See the CONTRIBUTING document. Thank you, contributors!
Arduino Garden is Copyright (c) 2018 Gaurav Singh. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.
Arduino Garden is maintained by @antoniomerlin
Gaurav Singh gauravsinghbr@hotmail.com
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