Remote plant watering

Posted on Mar 26, 2019

This was one of my earlier arduino projects. I started with connecting some soil moisture sensors to a plant.

Plant with sensor. Plant with sensor.

Then I built a pretty crappy planter with the sensor built-in.

Planter with sensor Planter with sensor

I wanted to do something more with this concept. I wanted a planter with a water compartiment and a pump, so I could water the plant without being there. These are some sketches:

Sketch of my planter idea Sketch of my planter idea Sketch of my planter idea

I settled on this design:

Sketch of my planter idea Work in progress of planter Work in progress of electronics The finished product

At TRIMM we have these green mugs everywhere. Whenever I wanted to get myself a cup of coffee, I could also get my planty boy a refill.

The goal was to have the thing wifi-connected, but I never made it past a prototype. I did hook it up to an infrared remote controller though, which worked pretty well.

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