Make a Raspberry Pi Automated Gardener
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
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With how busy our lives are, it's sometimes easy to forget to pay a little attention to your thirsty indoor plants until it's too late and you are left with a crusty pile of yellow carcasses. Instead of constantly replacing those plants, we'll show you how to make a compact, automated, raspberry pi powered gardener to water and light your plants. This gardener's memory is impeccable, and never forgets to water your plant.
This project uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W to run the software. It doesn't use wifi, so you could also use the Raspberry Pi Zero. However, if you want to extend the functionality and make it connect to an IoT app, you'll want to use the Zero W.
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Raspberry Pi Zero × 1
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12v Peristaltic Pump × 1
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White SiliconeTubing, 1/8"ID, 3/16"OD × 1
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5v Grow Light × 1
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IRLB8721PBF N-Channel MOSFET × 2
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Jumper wires (generic) × 1
M4 Bolts + Nuts × 4
M3 Bolts + Nuts × 2
M2.5 Bolts + Nuts × 2
Electrical Tape × 1
12v Power Supply × 1
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Seems like there are a lot of requests for extra features (webcam, ph/moistness sensor, IoT app, etc.) If there is enough interest, we could make a follow-up video about how to add some of those features.
Very nice project, but it could be better. I have few more ideas, along with the moisture sensor and the IoT app using a machine learning library to maximize plant growth with minimum resources would be a cool project.
Hacker House another vote for this ^
Hacker House yes, please do this.
What did you use to design (for the 3D Printer) the housing?
Yeah that would be great,but still I love this project👌✌
Nice project. Add a moist sensor and a overflow sensor so you don't come home to water damage or a swimming plant.
Next video: Automated weed farm?
That is something I'm gonna do we I turn 18 and my parents don't get into trouble if I have weed on me, Thanks for the idea
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@@jesusgarciagutierrez7301 better than destroying it with religion
Yes please. Seeing the behind the seens, and the making of a project is cool. Even the goofs and mistakes. One, it helps others relate and two, over come our own mistakes & working out issues to bring a project to completion. Lol, not to mention seeing the bloopers might increase your viewer numbers too.
Little known fact in the Pi community... there's something called a power MOSFET that you can use to switch much higher voltages than 5V... or use a relay and switch AC.
this will be great for my weed farm
🤔
i knew you would come
how to add relay >?
To avoid algae building up inside the water container or tubes, try a non-transparent material or put everything inside some form of housing.
This actually looks pretty neat. I think I might have to try this just for fun xD
This actually gets me halfway to my end goal of an automated chameleon cage. The lights and water are covered. Next I need to set up a thermometer, and code that information to auto activate the heat lamp/cooling fan to maintain optimal temperature. As well as a humidity sensor set to activate the fogger below optimum humidity.
Excellent video all around. The project was great and so was the video and editing. Well done!
Nice project! I also made an automated garden, but wrote my code in C++ for an Arduino. It'd be pretty easy for you to make a simple voltage divider that measures the voltage drop across the soil for a quick and simple moisture probe if you plan to improve it. I really like the grow light and small pump!
Just what i needed for my
automated weed farm.
much thanks
Hey, that's a nice idea 💡Do upload behind the scenes, that's gonna be super helpful
this help me to creat an autmomatic hemp gardener
YES POST IT PLEASE, VERY INTERESTING CHANNEL! Great Job!
You Guys are amazing
Sorry to be a nitpick but you can schedule things on a Pi with Cron! Would make the code much smaller. A command for on off light and one for the pump. Add two entries to the crontab and done. No startup script needed.
Very cool Aaron. Is there a way to power this using Alexa? That would be a cool skill to add. "Alexa, water my plants". Also think about how the water can be stored inside the potter so there is no need for the cup. You guys should patent "self watering pot" :-) Looking forward to future videos.
Awesome build. Thank you.
Hey! Good work folks! This is very informative!
I was just wondering , why to use such a powerful processor for such a simple task , why didn't you use an Arduino, or Esp
That would have made it so much more cheaper and simpler !
Parth Bhat So true
+Parth Bhat you could if you want. We thought it would be cool to use this with an IoT app like Blynk since the Zero W has built in WiFi. The zero is also only $10
Hacker House yup fair enough , but I'd say its way to powerful for such a simple project , its like testing a 1.5v led on 120v Ac
not even arduino microchip pic can be found for < 1$
Good analogy. We'll try to keep that in mind for next time.
Awesome video guys. Some behind the scenes content would be great!
great for POT plants
Cool Doc Brown type stuff!!
Hello, You could solve the same issue with two timers, one link to the light and the other to the pump... However you have greate potential to do things like; humidity sensor for better watering, compensate outside light variations with the lamps, ph of soil for fertiliser, timelapse of the plant (with lamp on) and so on. This would bring real value to the project as the Raspberry Pi is well suited to solve this issues. Looking forward more developed project.
+Loïc Rosset yep! That's why it's open source :)
Super cool video. Thank you!
yes please! i would love more videos even if its only in parts
love the channel guys
Robot, grow my weed. Ok human. Awesome!
This project is awesome!!
You are my inspiration bro
This is reaaly cool, thanks for sharing.
Could this be easily/reasonably upscaled for larger gardens? Indoor hyroponics or regular container gardening with larger plants/plant numbers?
Thanks again.
Perfect for growing weed
Doesn't this still require you to fill up that glass every once in a while? Seems like if you're already having problems remembering to water your plants you'd probably have problems remembering to fill up that glass?
nice! one suggestion though: in rclocal you may want to add an ampersand (&) at the end of the line so it runs as a daemon. that way you can still complete the boot if you're connected to a screen and log in, otherwise it will hang at startup.
so that line will be:
python /home/pi/Code/Automatic-Gardener-master/gardener.py &
Added to the docs
this is what makes open source great. keep up the good work. i look forward to seeing what you create. :)
U know what I'm gonna plant.
Do people have a limit to how much they spend for this type of thing to monitor and water a plant? Maybe it's not a question of money, but wanting to get it done.
Can you customize this to work with my own 260W lights?
nano* Would a raspberry 3 B+ have enough power draw from the usb port for the pump?
Interested in bts for sure.
Very nice, would it also be possible to check for PH and EC levels in the water and if needed add more PH- and/or nutrients?
Is it possible to control the brightness of the light with the homekit for the raspberry?
Oh man, that's awesome
Hi, nice project!
I could try to wire everything exactly like you did, but I have no idea how to do this in own projects. Where can I learn this electronics stuff with MOSFET transistor and co? Could you please recommend me a book or an website so I can learn this by myself?
Can u make a google lens with rasberry pi?
well done !! is there anyway to know the time and quantity of lighting a plant does exactly need ? i dont know ... by using a camera raspberry and mesuring the quantity of smtg ?
How does he connects the 12v powers supply to the raspberry pi, wouldn’t that fry it up. If anyone could help me out I would appreciate it
In my project I connect pump with voltage 3-6 V. If you are interested link to video below.
th-cam.com/video/G7vOe3zC9bw/w-d-xo.html
Will I be able to bypass any adapters or packs by buying a 5v water pump instead of a 12v?
can i water 20 plants ? 1 cpu per plant seems kinda wasteful. also if i could control the schedule and amount of water for each of the plants. :)
Soil Moisture Sensor
Wow
You could use a NodeMCU with ESP8266 for such simple project(its lot cheaper)
Are you going to finish the new bar you guys were working on?
Nice soldering lol
How would one go about building these to sell commercially?
Ide buy this from whoever if it was completely ready to go out the box and cheap?
Does the light only turn on while the pump is watering the plant?
Saw the code set water and light separately in code.
Where did you get the background from in your terminal?
I love to work with these project but I don't know the basic linux and python codings .Can anyone recommend me any?
Is that a TIP36 MOSFET
IRLB8721PBF
How's it work for weed
Can you share the 3D printer sketch?
wait a minute. why are you using the pi to power your grow light? that's way too much draw & you're gonna ruin it. You should be using an interface circuit w/ a separate power source for that.
You need a dark water bottle otherwise allege will start to grow there.
super video could it be passible to add a ph prob ?
weed grower right here
yes and French on top , that s smell bad :-)
by the way i use ph controlled water on all my indoor plants.
did you ever use ph probes?
i never found probes that could be constantly installed in a DIY system
there is some you can buy at RS that can be immerse 24/24 and they cost like a 100 usd
you can find them in many web site like RS i am using a cheap prob (actually a 10 usd ph tester that i interconnect with the system its tricky but it works i change the prob every 6month
I'd love bts videos!
Seems too big and bulky. Maybe hide everything within the plant and put the lights around the edge of the pot pointing towards the plant?
Don't you just hate it when you walk in on your plant and IT IS ALREADY DEAD?!? CANT EVEN TURN YOUR BACK ON IT FOR A MINUTE!
Hi
This sounds like a advertising. And my ad blocker is not happy.
Hi x2
You've just reached new levels of laziness. XD
+jared robinson Automate everything :)
Just leave the glass of water and pipe, the plant will draw water from the glass. Seriously over engineering
Do you have the design for the 3D printed part?
Yeah, awesome project...but the Pi seems wasted on such basic functionality. I mean, these functions could be controlled by a simple timer. Would also like to see watering based on soil humidity, ambient temperature etc. Keep up the great work :)
Add a moisture sensor
Would you be able to post a video on how you made the 3d printed casing, I use Autodesk Inventor, I was wondering if that would be compatible to 3d print
Beatiful video and channel, but how come you didn't use thermo retract seals instead of duct tape? Don't mean to bitch, but...
Anyway, really nice setup
+doctorbarrientos didn't have any. It's also electrical tape.
Now that's a whole new level of lazy
What model 3D printer do you use?
+Gary Smith robo c2