the sous gardener
keep your green babies alive and thriving with almost no effort at all
sous gardener i
class: Electronics for Internet of Things
term: spring 2022
A small flowerpot with an embedded moisture sensor and NFC tag. When you tap the flowerpot with your phone it takes you to a webpage with live readouts from the moisture sensor and tells you if you need to water your plant. We used micropython with an ESP32 microcontroller and I2C capacitive moisture sensor
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sous gardener ii
class: Design of Microprocessor-Based Mechanical Systems
term: spring 2023
write up: PDF
An upgrade to the sous gardener to also track light levels and actuate a pump or a grow-light when the soil is too dry or the plant isn’t getting enough light. All with a new GUI in Labview that allows you to manually toggle the grow-light and pump and track light moisture levels in real time. This project was initially supposed to be a group project but due to drops and low attendance I ended up doing it entirely on my own. I only ended up being able to build the hardware components and the GUI and didn't get to integrate it into a planter like I wanted to.
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