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Autonomous Plant Watering
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#22This looks like a job for a peristaltic pump. They can be had on ebay for a few $ and would allow very precise watering amounts.
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#23This looks like a job for a peristaltic pump. They can be had on ebay for a few $ and would allow very precise watering amounts.
not that precise ... as the tubes age, prepare for 50% less volume per revolution than a new tube.
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#24"Watering the plant would be too easy, we need a technological solution that will hydrate the plant and not require us to change our comfortable habit of neglect." Sounds like the typical eureka moment.
I agree. Plant watering really doesn't require any kind of electrical solution. There are oodles of self watering planters which rely on a reservoir and gravity.
But for the HNers with a slightly greener thumb: I have a big sanseviera which I use as a kind of alarm clock. Whenever it gets droopy, I know it's time to water all my plants. And because it's a big and hardy plant, it prevents me from overwatering my other plants.
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#25Does anyone know of a good windmill pump schematic?
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#26The Wifi outlet seems like mega overkill to run a schedule. Couldn't you just use one of these? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=socket+timer+us&safe=off&b...
From TFA:
"A Word on WiFi Sockets: They suck. They take the simplest operation of closing a circuit and abstract it in a shitty smartphone app that only works half the time."
Short interval timers are a bit harder to come by, as several others have mentioned, but they do exist and aren't very expensive. E.g. this one can go as short as one minute per week:
http://plumbdeal.com/product_info.php/grasslin-digital-plugi...
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#27http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ | hugelkultur is real autonomous plant watering - I have built 4 of them on my .35 acre property.
Also called "raised-bed gardening"? At least it looks like the same or very similar concept.
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#28Nice little setup. Here is my watering system: http://llbit.se/?p=2827
I'm thinking about something like this, thanks for posting your link.
My father's house has a greywater septic system. The treated water is sprayed on an "orchard". The trees don't get watered when people aren't in the house, so most the trees are gone. I'm going to plant raspberries. :)
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#29Or just use a $2 Arduino clone, a 12V pump and a 50¢ TTL MOSFET.. And you'll even be able to add soil moisture sensors to compensate for external factors like air temperature/humidity
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#30"Watering the plant would be too easy, we need a technological solution that will hydrate the plant and not require us to change our comfortable habit of neglect." Sounds like the typical eureka moment.
I agree. Plant watering really doesn't require any kind of electrical solution. There are oodles of self watering planters which rely on a reservoir and gravity. But for the HNers with a slightly greener thumb: I have a big sanseviera which I use as a kind of alarm clock. Whenever it gets droopy, I know it's time to water all my plants. And because it's a big and hardy plant, it prevents me from overwatering my other…
> There are oodles of self watering planters which rely on a reservoir and gravity.
Do you have any recommendations?