Giles Smart Plant Care Kit for Arduino “This kit helps bulls up your own plant care system, It also favors the extensional to achieve more applications with just a few adjustments. The kit implements two functions. One is to detect environment factors affecting plant ‘growth such as all mature, rumination intensity, temperature and air humidity, all the data detected can be read on LODE display. Another one s to water plants automatically through the environment monitoring.
e e Description 1 What's in the Kit 3 Extra Tools 5 Build A Simple Plant-care System & Software operations 1 Demo Operation Instruction 17 More application expansion 2 Related topics 2 Appendix 22
Part list Function Grove Temp humidity Sensor | To detection the temperature & humidity Grove Sunlight Sensor V1.0 To detect illumination Intensity Grove Wisteria Flow Sensor To detect the speed and volume of waterfowl Venturesome Sensor o detect the doll postural Grove Encoder To adjust knob Grove-LODE Display 112" o display parameters Grove-Button To adjust parameters Grove Relay| To control water pump.
Grove Encoder This molecule Is an incremental rotary encoder, The Grave Encoder has the standard Grove interface and can be applied to adjust nab. Grove LODE Display 1.12" Iris a 16 color gray scale, 128x64 dot matrix LODE display, with Grove compatible pin (2C interface. Comparing to LCD, LODE screens are more competitive, which has a number of advantages such as high brightness, serif-emission, high contrast ratio, slim ‘outline, wide view angle, wide temperature range, and low power consumption.
12V Water Pump This s small size, light weight, high efficiency, low consumption and low nose water pump. It s used to pump water from the container to your plant pat, Grove Water Flow Sensor ‘Water flow sensor consists of a plastic cave body. a ‘water rotor, and a hal -effect sensor. When water flows through the rotor, rotor rolls, it speed changes with different flow rate. The hall-effect sensor outputs the corresponding pulse signal. 1t helps you control your ‘water flow precisely.
Select all parts required to bulls water pump circuit from this it: 2V Water Pump, Grove Relay, 12V Power Connector, Power Cables. 2. Plug one red wire of quarter pump into positive terminal of power connector and fix It with screw.
3. Plug cable to relay’s ether J1 portend fit. 4.Plug black wire of water pump into negative terminal of power connector and northerner, 5. Plug red wire of water pump into relay’s another port of }1 connector.
6. Hove a ook at the completed connection, Note: The vinyl tubing (70 cm) Is not Included In this kit 2. Sllce vinyl! tubing Into three parts: two long ones and one short, Each of the two long ones should be about triple themes of the short inane length. The long ones are used to inlet tube and Frigate tube. The short one will be used ta connect the water pump and the water flow sensor.
3. Thumb of rules: you can connect tubes according to arrow symbols on water pump and water flow sensor. 4, Connect both end of short tube to outlet of water pump and Inset of water flow sensor. Note: fix inlet of water flow sensor with nut and make sure tube ‘connected with water pump Is tightened. 5. Connect ane end of either long tube to Inlet of water pump and place the. ‘either end into water container.
6. Connact the either long tube to outset of water flow sensor and fix them with knob. 7.To ensure a good imitation effect, you can make a few holes on the tube and place It around the paint. Remember to clog the tube output.
i b bbb b Modules Port Grove-LODE Display 112” R|R Grove Sunlight Sensor V1.
@ The project built with this kit should be placed in the environment where dry and vo rain reached, to avoid short circus, ® Please insert moisture sensor Into the center part of flowerpot, and keep It near to the plant and away from the landing point of water. Figure: Moisture sensor should be placed like this.
Eta Arduino UNO board and USB cable (Type Ato type C). Download the Arduino IDE Get the test version from the Arduino UNO integrated development environment (IDE) When downloading work finishes, Install 1t on your PC. Connect the board The Arduino baaed automatically draw power from the USB connection to the ‘computer or an external parer supply. Connect A plug to your PC and C plug 1o Arduino UNO board. The green power LED (labeled PWR) should go on.
Right click on the "Arduino (Como" port and choose the *Update Driver Software" option. * Next, chose the *Browse my computer for Driver software” caption. s » Finally, navigate to and select the driver file named "STDIO USB Drivers", located In the "Drivers* folder in Arduino installation directories. And follow general windows driver install wizard to complete installation. o B Launch the Arduino IDE Double-click the Arduino application.
Select your serial port Please choose corresponding COM port for your Arduino board, It can be found in Device manager in the windows Control Panel. Note: You should choose right one appropriately ta your Arduino board, Flash the program Now, simply click the "Upload" button in the environment. Wait a few seconds you should Sega prompt ke following figure shows: Few seconds after the upload finishes and we assume you use sample Blink, you should see the pin 13 (L) LED on the board start to blink in orange).
FAQs: Shouldn't | do [the IDE prompted as “cannot find such file"? A: That shows some header files cannot be found be by IDE itself, Click Sketch>Include Library>Add .zip library to add corresponding header file. For example, you should add into library If DE have prompted “cannot find LODE: file", Get community help at nonsupport studiousness/ BTk a0 + Kris, dust different parameters' value and switch parameter-setting page.
It also will alarm if no water available In water container and alarming information will be displayed. Note: you can airways press button to cancel alarming In planning status. Note: you can press button to stop watering In watering status. Note: interval of watering is 5 minutes which means even watering action’s demand is satisfied, it still needs 5 minutes since last watering. * Set water volume You can set water volume complemented for your plant.
« Set soil moisture limit. At masturbate setting page, you can set moisture safe values for your plant and check current moisture magnitude. This system water your plants as moisture magnitude reach limit. Press and hold button, adjust knob to change values, real moisture value on upper part setting value on bottom part of display. + Temperature limits, At temperature setting page, you can set temperature [omits for your plant and check current temperature.
+ Set air humidity limit, At humidity setting page, you can set humidity limits for your plant and check current alr humility. Press button to switch between low limit setting and high IMF setting. Pres sand hold button, adjust knob to change values, real humidity value on upper part, setting value on bottom part of display.
More application expansion “This kit features high extensional on which you can add mare modules to make you project mare intelligent. For example: * Add 2 buzzer to alarm yourself; * Add Bluetooth module ta control It more convenient. R ALTER Smart Plant Care Kt s 2 smart and Inexpensive kit which could help you develop a plant-caring system quickly.
