My first Indoor & Outdoor grows, Plus Hydruino! WIP

Hey everyone, My names Oli, i'm 17. I'v been reading around Rollitup for about a year now, watching how ridiculous some of your grows are! But i'v never really posted anything about my outdoor grows, or my indoor grow i just began.

I thought i'd make an effort to post now, as i'd like to share my Outdoor, indoor, and my Hydro controller i'm building, from scratch. I'm calling it the Hydruino, as it is powered by an Arduino Micro controller. Its in the very beginning stages (breadboarded and wires everywhere) so i won't post up pics of my PCB's i'm designing yet, but i'll give a few pictures of my Prototyped enclosure and such. Here's a few features it will eventually house:

- 4x3 Numeric Keypad Security Login will open the door of the grow (which slides vertically upwards on rails driven by stepper motors), and allow access to the following

- Ph Monitor & Control
- Humidity Monitor & Control
- Temperature Monitor & Control
- EC/PPM Monitor & Control
- Light Height Adjustment
- Light Timer
- Soil Moisture Monitoring
- Ebb & Flow or Drip System Selection
- Automatic Watering according to Soil Moisture
- Remote monitoring via iPhone or Computer
- Complete control via the Application i'm currently Developing in Cocoa for Mac OSX


The unit also houses a Wifi router with an Axis 207 IP camera connected to it via ethernet, which is then broadcasted up to my Server logging 48 images per day to a 2TB drive, which can be viewed from the server, or via VNC on any device with Internet capabilities.

Most of this is till in the Development stages, as i still go to School and am in year 12, You'd be surprised how little free time one can have while studying Chemistry, Biology, Advance Maths, Entertainment Industry, & English.


<b>Please</b> don't go out of your way to tell me i'm to young to be doing this, All decisions are made and persuade with great care and thought as to not get in trouble with the law. So please, i don't need to be warned again.

Not to sure what i'm trying to accomplish with this post, i guess i'd just like comments, suggestions, ect. nothing to negative

this is going to be an ongoing project, so please subscribe : )

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

No one has any input? please!

First time poster here. That is completely badass. I'm a big fan of arduino's and I think that you have done something wonderful here. Can you post some more specs? Will there be Windows or Linux versions of your app? Please keep us posted.

Bumboclot

P.S. Nice looking plants

Well seeing as i'm almost 100% mac now, a windows and/or linux application would serve almost no purpose to me. Unless i started making these to sell, which i don't think there would be a demand for.
I went and got a few micro switches http://www.superdroidrobots.com/images/TE-044-000.jpg that i'll be mounting on the door of the shed my hydro systems in. it will allow current to pass through, powering the fan, and will shutoff immediately, until the door is closed, where it will power on after a 30second delay, to avoid any trouble with people clicking the switch on and off thinking "whats this?!"

Does anyone have any suggestions? things i could intergrate?
thanks

Would you mind listing which various components you have selected. Also, will you be releasing the board design?

Thanks

Bumboclot said:

Would you mind listing which various components you have selected. Also, will you be releasing the board design?

Thanks

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dont have a clue what the hell your talkin bout but hell when you get to the actual growin part i can help you out as much as possible..

so im scribed up.

burnbig420 said:

dont have a clue what the hell your talkin bout but hell when you get to the actual growin part i can help you out as much as possible..

so im scribed up.

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I wanted to know which sensors and other components were used in the hydruino project.

Almost two years later ... I'd like to see how that panned out. Looked built. Maybe he didn't see enough interest from others? But now there's more doing arduino, such as https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/520965-arduino-controlled-grow-pc-program.html