So after a long silence I have some progress in my pocket, I manage to get my hands on a water pump that came from a wreck car from the local car dump for 5 €, this pump is a normal water pump used for sparying water to the windshield of a car, it runs approximately at 12v and drains more or less 5A.
Now my second step was to get me a power supply that knows how to do the job, so, after a bit of online research I menaged to buy one of these:
GALYGG AC 110V-220V to DC 12V 5A(60W) Universal Regulated Switching Power Supply Transformer.
and of course one of those:
At the end, last but not least, I bought a super, wonderful, poweful..... a simple 6mm plastic pipe (3/16"")...now I have the power..
I'm am ready to light this up.. but..before, in order to run a properly test I need to:
- Get a fresh Raspbian image for my Rpi3 running a nodejs server
- An Arduino board
- An 16x2 LCD screen
- An Android application to control it, made in Ionic2, communiticating to the nodejs server via socket.io.
so..... ready..set!
An the relative water source:
In the next log I'll put the connection details and the code needed to begin the the ancient human dream... how to automatic water my plants!
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