Small Spaces: LED Organics

Abiqua

Abiqua

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Analog Kid said:
Yes besides the price of the blumats that was a concern of mine to actually know if they work correctly.

I would love to devise a self watering system that monitors each plant and disperses a measured amount individually. And control it with the arduino.

In micro controller world, I had built a prototype CNC but have since then taken the arduino out of that and it's ready for my next project which will probably be a water controller or some other growing gadget
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Nice...sounds like you are borderline pro level....I would love to able to cut some custom Arduino casing...that is one reason I have been researching the 3d printer craze lately...
 
Analog Kid

Analog Kid

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Abiqua said:
Nice...sounds like you are borderline pro level....I would love to able to cut some custom Arduino casing...that is one reason I have been researching the 3d printer craze lately...
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Lol I wouldn't quite say professional cause I don't get paid for it! It's a love of mine fiddling with electronics. And I have a partially built ultimaker 3d printer frame that's on the slow boat to getting finished. And those canna coins... How long before there is an ASIC to mine those and my cpu or gpu is useless for mining hahah like bitcoins are now.
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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Analog Kid said:
Lol I wouldn't quite say professional cause I don't get paid for it! It's a love of mine fiddling with electronics. And I have a partially built ultimaker 3d printer frame that's on the slow boat to getting finished. And those canna coins... How long before there is an ASIC to mine those and my cpu or gpu is useless for mining hahah like bitcoins are now.
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What about Butterfly Labs?

or their cloud mining, lol....not fudgin cheap either!
https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/cloud-mining-contracts.html
 
Analog Kid

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Ha ridiculous! I tried my hand at mining but quickly realized there is very little possibility of even making my money back for electricity let alone pay for my own mining rig or pay $1500 for a contract. Bitcoin is totally blown up and no way to earn a cent without an expensive rig. But maybe these canna coins are worth another look because it says they are designed for lower power processors
 
wirat

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Analog Kid said:
Ha ridiculous! I tried my hand at mining but quickly realized there is very little possibility of even making my money back for electricity let alone pay for my own mining rig or pay $1500 for a contract. Bitcoin is totally blown up and no way to earn a cent without an expensive rig. But maybe these canna coins are worth another look because it says they are designed for lower power processors
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Yeah, I agree. Nowadays you're basically going up against giant processor farms. Maybe more money in buying a metal detector and going to the beach...
 
JEX SPERGO

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Abiqua said:
yeah @JEX SPERGO I would like to follow up on this.....any recommendations? :peace:
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I did check this out some more, and as an infrequent user here with a small thing going, will say this....

Uv lamps seem actually to be rather damn dangerous, especially insecticidal ones, they literally let out lethal uv spectrum radiation, not the party lights, and I recommend you be extremely careful with this sort of thing. I won't be using them
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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JEX SPERGO said:
I did check this out some more, and as an infrequent user here with a small thing going, will say this....

Uv lamps seem actually to be rather damn dangerous, especially insecticidal ones, they literally let out lethal uv spectrum radiation, not the party lights, and I recommend you be extremely careful with this sort of thing. I won't be using them
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Agree, I am aware of the UV concern as I used to do RO water in water quality and one of the stages involves a UV-C bath.....and is strictly enclosed away from living tissue :).......wonder why

Thanks though, appreciate you poppin up and all :peace:
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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Working on a bunch of projects for a "smarter" grow.....

1st one is a DIY lux meter....build it for less than $12....[soldering required...]
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http://rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/arduino-2-1-build-a-diy-lux-meter-for-12.31448/

I will post more up about Conversions but you can use a lux meter to convert to both Lumens per meter squared [photometric]... lu/m^2 or they can be converted to PAR readings too....umol/s ..[radiometric].

I will get into both of those when I get some time....legit way to measure light cheaply....Google the differences between the way we perceive light [photometrically] and actual light energy including UV and IR bands [radiometric].....This is the reason that lumens can be misinterpreted in some cases....yes lumens can be converted from radiometric data, but not all lumens can be converted back to Radiometric data.....So in theory that would be two different readings.....:joint:


I am working on a battery powered version [9v] with the smaller Arduino [Nano]....so that it will be far more portable.....:peace:
 
Tim Fox

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Abiqua said:
Working on a bunch of projects for a "smarter" grow.....

1st one is a DIY lux meter....build it for less than $12....[soldering required...]
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http://rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/arduino-2-1-build-a-diy-lux-meter-for-12.31448/

I will post more up about Conversions but you can use a lux meter to convert to both Lumens per meter squared [photometric]... lu/m^2 or they can be converted to PAR readings too....umol/s ..[radiometric].

I will get into both of those when I get some time....legit way to measure light cheaply....Google the differences between the way we perceive light [photometrically] and actual light energy including UV and IR bands [radiometric].....This is the reason that lumens can be misinterpreted in some cases....yes lumens can be converted from radiometric data, but not all lumens can be converted back to Radiometric data.....So in theory that would be two different readings.....:joint:


I am working on a battery powered version [9v] with the smaller Arduino [Nano]....so that it will be far more portable.....:peace:
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ok what did you place those electronics inside of, looks like an old Vase?
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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Tim Fox said:
ok what did you place those electronics inside of, looks like an old Vase?
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lol :).....close, it is actually the base, on one of those outdoor patio umbrellas....This piece housed the crank....and splits in half [closed with invisible rubber bands] and the top just so happened to perfectly fit the 4 corners of the module....Lucky hack!
 
JEX SPERGO

JEX SPERGO

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cool.

I think that stuff with razvberry pie is so cool, how you can do also thermostats, humidity readers and then run them for a timer also. good for the kids ey :P
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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Well a thread over the in the led section pushed me to work on datalogging with the Arduino.....so i did :)

My first "real-time" sensor I have is this soil moisture probe sensor...I will have a Journal entry with source code and such...[the sensor only has three wires I am using: Analog Out[A0], Power[5v] and Gnd.]
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Last night I tried out two different programs
  • The native Windows Xp: Hyper terminal
  • CoolTerm, a cool little freeware terminal emulator
...both take the data from the soil moisture which just reads a number string, and then saves it to a text file of your choosing....Cut and paste the numbered text into Excel or Excel-like and graph your data...

Here are my quick graphs from both programs....

Next is grabbing and looking at data/ graphing data...... in real-time vs. waiting/Saving/SD Card etc...with a program called "Processing"...:peace:

cooltermcut soil moisture.png Soil 2 hyperterminal.PNG soil2 coolterm.PNG
 
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