visualising better to divide us more, work in progress.

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My garden monitoring and automation project, the PiGrow - all open source with documentation.

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My growbox monitoring and automation project - the Pigrow - all designs, software and documentation free and open source.

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Introduction to pigrow sensor options, going to make one of these for water sensors (pH, EC, float, spill, etc), plant sensors (weight, height, etc), air (co2, quality) then have a hardware guide plus a config\\use guide for each. Love to hear any criticism or advice, or other things to measure.

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Using simple triggers to control conditions in your growspace

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Guide to making the easiest possible timelapse videos of your plants.

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a hunky jew stripped to the waist and covered in oil that we can all admire...

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PH sensor test - I know a lot of people have been waiting for this, i've started testing config of this cheap one but i think my probe is dried out so probably not going to give good readings though hopefully I can get the ph4509 config tools worked out. Will get a better interface module soon also.

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Started work on the automated watering system, going to be testing an indoor and outdoor implementation -- any ideas, suggestions or requests most welcome...

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Added the camera config panel - take photos remotely on the pi and view them via the remote gui, take ranges of images varying one of the settings, configure the settings and save it to your pi -- everything you need to get a great looking timelapse started recording...

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I'm getting a 7'' touch-screen to connect to a pi, going to experiment making a simple dashboard for the Pigrow to show current sensor readings, pictures, graphs, etc. [Waveshare 7 Inch Capacitive Touch Screen LCD(C) With Bicolor Case 1024 * 600 HDMI]

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Full guide and gui support coming soon, the ADS1115 analogue to digital converter - useful to convert analogue sensors into digital signals we can read on the pi.

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British weather is the one thing as reliable as our trains.

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Graph of three chirp sensors in the same pot, been doing lots of testing of various sensors recently and will be putting up video guides for them soon.

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Found a cool way of donating to the raspberry pi foundation while shopping at Amazon, doesn't cost you a penny over what you were going to spend anyway.

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I've been really enjoying statements like this, it can be taken as a single statement or two but they're kinda the same thing in essence - the graphics are trying to kinds demonstrate the shape of the concept. Anyone got any others similar phrases they like?

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Been reading the raspi docs and various sensor datasheets planning some really useful new features and tightening up how everything works, also found a really useful tool for finding the raspberry pi on a local network

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The new mini-growbox I've been making, it'll serve as a test area for new pigrow developments and a studio to make timelapse videos, full details coming soon... Have a great Christmas everyone, I'm away for a week so won't be able to respond to messages.

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finally got my netbook working and I've been able to start testing the pigrow remote on windows - couple of minor incompatibilities but the key bits all work, hopefully need only a few minor changes to the code and i'll have an exe to release...

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Hardware Guide - Linking to the GPIO (upgrading the guides, lots more coming soon...)

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cool new feature coming soon, a tab for sensors plus support for the Chirp Soil Moisture Sensor with a tool to calibrate it's moisture percentage readout.

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Guide to using Relay Modules with the PiGrow - first draft so any and all comments welcome...

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working on an important new feature, a dialogue box to help install the pigrow on a raspberry pi - it shows which required modules and programs are installed and give some updates on progress as the install happens. Also might get the chance to try creating a mac-app tomorrow.

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Experimenting with inexpensive ways to protect the sensors wiring, new guide on making the best sensors coming soon...

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Love this quote, what's everyone's favourite pro free software quotes?

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work in progress on the gui's config tab, it reads the pigrows config and performs some checks. You can also remotely switch devices on and off which is useful for testing, but lots still to do...

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work in progress on the remote gui, remote cron editing - this makes it easy to enable, disable and check-on the scripts running on your pi. Lots of work to do on it but the proof-of-concept for the gui is almost doing everything it needs to.

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Updated the system config tab, will work on the menu bar with pigrow install, update and other config options next. The power info is cool it checks to see if there's a low power warning caused by low quality power adaptor. Anyone think of what system info to put in that empty space there?

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Trying to find some simple ways of describing the benefits of donating to open source projects, i'm having trouble cutting the line between over simplification and being too long winded - any ideas on how to express the idea in the image linked?

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making good progress on the camera setup gui, whatever webcam you're using you can dial it's settings in perfectly and get good stable images every time. Plenty left to do on the gui but it's a huge step.

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The SD cards turned up and I've installed Pigrow on all of them - just doing a little testing and logging then i'll send them out...

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I'm working on a few leaflets and pamphlets to explain opensource to the OWSers that don't know - anyone care to help?

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My new crimping tool, now I can put the connectors directly onto the wires! Got a new charger for my netbook coming in the post too so hopefully will be able to get the windows exe created and tested soon... As soon as my wire arrives i'll film a new video going in detail on assembling the sensor.

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Added support for these cool temperature sensors - they're waterproof so great for measuring water temp, soil temp or just generally using in a humid environment - plus you can plug lots of them together without any hassle.

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support for another sensor added, the cheap soil moisture sensors you get everywhere - lm393 - notoriously short lived and not especially accurate but so cheap they're almost disposable - digital mode only at the moment, will add analogue via an ADC when i get one...

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facebook heroin almost accidentally appeared a bad person, thank golly their huge heart and irrepressible spirit saved the day!

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my pi playground, wires up the wazzooo!

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I say, all this fawning over the establishment really misses what made England great, eccentric progressive conservatives!

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Some women, seem to glory over the fact that they never had any sexual desire and to think that desire is vulgar. What? Vulgar?... Vulgar rather must be the mind that can conceive such blasphemy. No sexual passion, say you. Say, rather, a sexual idiot, and confess your life is a failure....

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It is cowardice and erroneous to believe that saintliness consists in blind obedience -Jose Rizal [on the left]

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