Automation

This post misses a lot of technical details as I reconstruct the changes and implementations out of my memory and my image archive. The latest Blumentopf iteration will contain all technical details you need. In 2020 I remembered a Self-Watering Planter I printed a few years ago and thought it would be nice to reuse this one to replace my chunky prototype with a cleaner and more aesthetic version. Since I grew a lot of chilis that needed a similiar amount of water, I thought it would be easier to only use one pump and chain the pots together....

This post misses a lot of technical details as I reconstruct the changes and implementations out of my memory and my image archive. The latest Blumentopf iteration will contain all technical details you need. Four years ago I started working on a never ending side project with which I wanted to automate the watering of some of my plants. I fiddled around with a few modules from Tinkerforge which I love for jumping into a project....