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Kitchen Herbs Planter

A planter for eatable herbs made out of a whiskeybox with growlighting and soil moisture sensor.

joost-markerinkJoost Markerink
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This project was created on 05/19/2016 and last updated 9 years ago.

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current_hour.php

this server script will simply return the current hour 00 - 24. the ESP8266 will use this to determine whether to turn on or off the lights.

php - 102.00 bytes - 05/20/2016 at 19:02

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Components

  • 1 × red ledstrip
  • 1 × white ledstrip
  • 1 × Whiskeybox (3 bottle size)
  • 1 × ESP8266 to dim/mix the ledstrips based on time and reads the moisture sensor value. Configurable by wifi.
  • 1 × Soil Moisture Sensor

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  • heat

    Joost Markerink • 06/16/2016 at 08:41 • 0 comments

    The light gets too hot...

  • Growlight electronics working

    Joost Markerink • 06/01/2016 at 10:02 • 0 comments

  • Growlight LEDs

    Joost Markerink • 05/24/2016 at 15:55 • 0 comments

  • Electronics

    Joost Markerink • 05/20/2016 at 10:00 • 0 comments

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