Collaborate Disseminate
Change on industrial scales is slow, but if you’re operating your own small farm or simply working in a home garden there are some excellent ways to use water more …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Plant Monitoring System Grows To Include LoRa
Caring for a few plants, or even an entire farm, can be quite a rewarding experience. Watching something grow under and then (optionally) produce food is a great hobby or …read more Continue reading All-In-One Automated Plant Care
Keeping soil moist is key to keeping most plants happy. It can be a pain having to dip one’s fingers into dirty soil on the regular, so it’s desirable to …read more Continue reading Check Soil Moisture At A Glance With This Useful Display
For all but the most experienced gardeners and botanists, taking care of the soil around one’s plants can seem like an unsolvable mystery. Not only does soil need the correct …read more Continue reading Fertilizing Plants With A Custom 3D-Printed Pump
One of [Sasa]’s life goals is to be able to sit back in his home and watch as robots perform all of his work for him. In order to work …read more Continue reading Your Plants Can Take Care of Themselves Now
There are usually two ways to go about any task: the easy way and the hard way. Sometimes we might not know there are two options, but once we see someone else’s solution we might feel differently. When running a greenhouse or small farm, for example, we might decide to …read more
“Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognize that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage.” Continue reading ‘Runaway Collapse’ of Environment Could Cause the Next Great Recession
A team of Columbia researches finds that the climate tipping point may come sooner than we think. Continue reading Plants are Losing Their Capacity to Absorb Human CO2 Emissions
Once-productive lands have become deserts, are polluted, or deforested, putting 3.2 billion people at risk. Continue reading More Than 75 Percent of Earth’s Land Areas Are ‘Broken,’ Major Report Finds
If you compulsively search online for inexpensive microcontroller add-ons, you will see soil moisture measurement kits. [aka] built a greenhouse with a host of hacked hardware including lights and automatic watering. What caught our attention among all these was Step 5 in their instructions where [aka] explains why the cheap soil sensing probes aren’t worth their weight in potting soil. Even worse, they may leave vacationers with a mistaken sense of security over their unattended plants.
The sensing stakes, which come with a small amplifier, work splendidly out of the box, but if you recall, passing current through electrodes via …read more
Continue reading Sensing Soil Moisture: You’re Doing it Wrong!