Hey everyone!
I am a very small time grower. I grow for personal use and do not sell my produce. I mainly grow for the please and the learning side of things in terms of gardening.
My 9-5 day job is with the IT industry, specifically in software testing side of things. I know some programming but am by no means a code monkey however I did just get hired as a SDET(software development engineer in test) for a large coupon company. I will likely learn Java, Javascript, Postgresql, SQL and a few other languages due to the new job requirements.
Just like learning any language, you can't read a french text book and learn french. You also can't learn french and never use again and expect to know it.
Programming is the same way, you must continuously use the langauges to keep up with it and be able to write programs.
Being a gardener not just for cannabis, but having an aquaponics based window farm in my living room, i have decided to figure out how can i go about automating this?
I have seen systems in use that automatically distribute out nutrients and keep water in a certain parameter, add water, and a bunch of other things. These commerical systems do not come free and are quite expensive(think blue labs dosetronic)
There is a lot of data we can collect from an automated system such as what nutrients are needing dosing and at which rates, what the soil/water temps are during day/night, specific light input the plant is receiving per every hour, how often one is needing to water, just to name a few.
Not only can you personally collect this data, but using a device such as a raspberry pi to be your "brains" of the unit would allow oyu to have a wifi connection to a server database.
there seems to be quite a few projects out there for this style of automating, however nothing really has taken off yet.
There is GardenBot which is ardrino based, which lacks the ability for data collect/wifi submission.
Has anyone persued this idea for cannabis or any other plants? I'm thinking if you had a database, you could completely optimize the growing for one specific plant over time as you would have a bunch of data points that you can create an algorithm to use.
Seems like a fun little project to pick up and explore. Hopefully by end of this year ill have a functioning prototype and be ready to build prototypes for others to "test" for me.
I am a very small time grower. I grow for personal use and do not sell my produce. I mainly grow for the please and the learning side of things in terms of gardening.
My 9-5 day job is with the IT industry, specifically in software testing side of things. I know some programming but am by no means a code monkey however I did just get hired as a SDET(software development engineer in test) for a large coupon company. I will likely learn Java, Javascript, Postgresql, SQL and a few other languages due to the new job requirements.
Just like learning any language, you can't read a french text book and learn french. You also can't learn french and never use again and expect to know it.
Programming is the same way, you must continuously use the langauges to keep up with it and be able to write programs.
Being a gardener not just for cannabis, but having an aquaponics based window farm in my living room, i have decided to figure out how can i go about automating this?
I have seen systems in use that automatically distribute out nutrients and keep water in a certain parameter, add water, and a bunch of other things. These commerical systems do not come free and are quite expensive(think blue labs dosetronic)
There is a lot of data we can collect from an automated system such as what nutrients are needing dosing and at which rates, what the soil/water temps are during day/night, specific light input the plant is receiving per every hour, how often one is needing to water, just to name a few.
Not only can you personally collect this data, but using a device such as a raspberry pi to be your "brains" of the unit would allow oyu to have a wifi connection to a server database.
there seems to be quite a few projects out there for this style of automating, however nothing really has taken off yet.
There is GardenBot which is ardrino based, which lacks the ability for data collect/wifi submission.
Has anyone persued this idea for cannabis or any other plants? I'm thinking if you had a database, you could completely optimize the growing for one specific plant over time as you would have a bunch of data points that you can create an algorithm to use.
Seems like a fun little project to pick up and explore. Hopefully by end of this year ill have a functioning prototype and be ready to build prototypes for others to "test" for me.