The SMS comes in two parts which must be connected to each other via 2 female-female wires. Connect the PCB side of the SMS to the breadboard, connect power/ground pins, and connect the ANALOG data pin to an ADC pin of the ESP32.
In this step, we'll make sure the soil moisture sensor is protected from water by attaching a 3D printed cover using hot glue. Take the 3D printed cover designed for the soil moisture sensor.Heat up your hot glue gun and allow it to reach the appropriate...
The next step is to connect the SMT100 RS-485 soil moisture sensor with the LoRa module as follows (left green socket for screwing, attention: look up exact assignment in the Dragino manual!): Brown wire +5 VWhite wire GNDGreen wire RS-485...
Once the cement has cured, fill the box with soil. Remember to heat seal the end of the Outlet pipe before making a hole in it for the dripper. The dripper is used to regulate the water coming out of the pipe so that the water does not flow out of the...
To "dial in" your sensor you will need to play around with how deeply the sensor is inserted into your plant's soil. If you want to have the sensor trigger earlier (ie when the soil is still somewhat slightly damp) insert the sensor only a little bit...
Feel free to use the ready-made gerber files from my github to order a bunch of soil probe PCBs https://github.com/ovidiu4/smart-plant-monitor/tree/main/hardware If you'd like to skip this step just know that capacitance can be measures with just...
Using MQTT and IFTTT, you can send information to tons of different applications! (Check out a LIVE real-time dashboard with mcModules using Losant) There are examples on our YouTube channel and also from other users within our forum....
After working out the soil moisture variables (see YouTube video at the bottom) using the wireless debugging feature in mcStudio, we loaded the code onto the module and put into a planter. We programmed the module to check the soil moisture every 30...
A Mindsensors AbsoluteIMU sensor is attached below the two yellow stoppers just behind the ultrasonic sensor with the X axis pointing in the direction of the sensor, as shown in the camera picture below.
To be able to interact with a snowflake I added another brass rod to create a capacitive touch sensor. I found a great library and tutorial by Paul Stoffregen. The touch sensor is used to interact with the arduinoflake - change animation, turn...
The sensor has Three pins: PowerDataGround Which were soldered to distinct wires The Power wires were then connected to the same Power pin on the Raspberry Pi, similarly to the Ground wires connected to the same ground pin on the raspberryPi. GPIO pins...