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Today's project is reading a soil hygrometer in a house plant to determine the email address
moisture level. We are using a SainSmart UNO developer board with extra
rows of Gnd and 5v headers. The sensor we are using is the Sunkee Soil
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Hygrometer, which has analog and digital output. It is marked VCC (5v),
Gnd, D0, and A0. We are using the analog outputs so that we can see the
moisture percentage and turn on a pump, but you can also use the digital
output to turn on a pump or indicate dry/wet. If you use fertilizer, your Search This Blog
percentage reading can be higher than normal (makes the soil more
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conductive), and the sensor itself will become less conductive (reading dryer)
over time as it degrades. Different kinds of plants want different moisture
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I dropped the sensor into a glass of water, with the water level the same level SERVER
as the soil would be on the sensor. The value printed (Serial.println
(sensorValue);) became the number I used in the constrain statement and One of my goals for
the weather station
the map statement (485). I then commented out the Serial.println and energy monitor is
(sensorValue); line as I no longer wanted to see the raw value. The dry to be able to access it remotely. The
best way…
sensor value would be 1023. The map command takes a value of 485-1023
and turns it into 100-0%.
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Turning on a pump when the moisture level drops below a certain point and
running it for a certain amount of time would be a simple addition to this Need to control a
pneumatic cylinder?
project. We use low voltage
compressed air cylinders at work, and
that gave me…
Here is the sketch and the output:
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