A project journal.
I haven’t posted about soil moisture sensors in ages, but I’ve completed a number of iterations and I thought it’d be fun to look over the evolution of the hardware. My goal has been to build a small, low power, inexpensive device, that I can place in indoor and outdoor plants to collect soil moisture, light, and …
I grow plants. For a time, I’ve wanted a low-cost sensor that can live in my plants and broadcast information about temperature, light, water, and drainage that I can compare to ideal growing conditions. I’ve set out to build such a device. This post focuses exclusively on the moisture sensor component. Commercial grade soil moisture …