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Plant Watering Reminder Gadget

Started by Cramulus, June 07, 2016, 04:39:01 PM

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Cramulus



The plants in my apartment kept dying, mainly because my girlfriend and I kept assuming the other one had watered them. So I invented a little gadget that tells us when the plants need to be watered. It's super simple.

The gadget has 3 buttons and 3 LEDs. Each pair is linked to one of the plants in my apartment.

It's only a timer, it doesn't detect soil moisture or anything crazy like that. When a light turns on, it signifies that one of the plants needs to be watered. When somebody waters it, we'll press the button, and it'll reset the counter.

This fun little gadget only cost about $20 to make. It was a lot of fun to build!

Q. G. Pennyworth


Cramulus

Arduino Uno + 3 LEDs + 3 buttons + 6 resistors

The Wizard Joseph

That's neat! I used to work in electronic hand assembly and repair, years back. I never understood the science of design or the finer points of electronic theory. I just performed minor miracles of construction and repair. The craft of it is great fun if you have some patience and a steady hand. I used to think of it as "Zen gardening with hot lead."

I like your device idea. I'm uncertain that it's accurate, but I heard that if you flip the polarity on certain types of LED you can improvise a photo sensor. If the device won't sound without a certain light threshold it could help to prevent the thing from waking folks if the plant happens to get dry overnight. Then the plants become a sort of alarm clock and they get the water right when they need it to make food.
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You know what we do to people who build clocks at home, right?  This was widely broadcast in every media.
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LMNO


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Quote from: LMNO on June 08, 2016, 07:19:58 PM
Yeah, but Cram's white.

How long do you suppose that will matter?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO


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Cramulus

I built this thing at my desk at work. No less than four people asked me if what I was building was "dangerous".

-Two of them were asking tongue-in-cheek
-The other two seemed weirdly hopeful that it was

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Quote from: Cramulus on June 09, 2016, 03:09:55 PM
I built this thing at my desk at work. No less than four people asked me if what I was building was "dangerous".

-Two of them were asking tongue-in-cheek
-The other two seemed weirdly hopeful that it was

Tell them if someone doesn't press the button once a day it will result in botanical desiccation with a scared look on your face.
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