Comments on: GardenMon(itoring project) http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chance http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27411 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:29:21 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27411 I am interested in the whole project. More so the probes you used and the methodology in general, as I have experience and development tools for AVR.

]]> By: Ken_S. http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27410 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:31:32 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27410 >they pulled your site because it was sucking a lot of bandwidth.

Probably, but every time I E-Mail them I just get back the exact same form letter. I don’t think anybody reads the message, they copy & paste the form letter in the reply and go to the next message.

>I am highly interested in this project.

What do you want to know about it?

Good Luck!
Ken_S.

]]> By: Chance http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27409 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:32:20 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27409 You probably got the “slashdot” effect and they pulled your site because it was sucking a lot of bandwidth after hackaday picked you out.

I am highly interested in this project. Any chance you’ll get it back online soon?

]]> By: Ken_S. http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27408 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:41:27 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27408 >link was broken, and i wonder… Is it working?

No, the link is broken. GeoCities has some how declaired me in violation of their Terms of Service. I’ve bounced a few E-Mails back and forth trying to find out exactly what the violation is.

>same concept, but involving more basic hardware

PicAxe’s are pretty darn basic, what did you have in mind?

Good Luck!
Ken_S.

]]> By: luis http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27407 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:40:08 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27407 defenetly could be a very usefull tool. I have been working on same concept, but involving more basic “hardware”…
link was broken, and i wonder… Is it working?
kindly amazed,

luis

]]> By: Tim http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27406 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:37:48 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27406 I’m not sure how many we would need, I’d have to talk to my boss, but we have Energy Farms all over the globe that could use this kind of monitoring without the $1kUSD for a Davis weather station– would it be easy to add more sensors for more info and.. oh I dunno, an application that put the data online :P

]]> By: Gern http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27405 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:13:15 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27405 found a good url:
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8080/GardenMon/GardenMon.html
guess it got truncated :\

]]> By: 787B http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27404 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:08:01 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27404 Ken,That thing is too cool to have it stuck on geocities. You pick up gardenmon.com/net/org ($7/year from Go Daddy) and I’ll host it for nothing for a year. (After that I might ask for a few bucks/year. Since you
would own the domain, I can’t hold you hostage. :)

]]> By: roger8wilco http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27403 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:16:16 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27403 Exactly what ive been looking for! Im doing the same for my lawn and garden, but adding a nutrient injector to switch between lawn and garden (different nutrients)…

anyone been able to get the code file of the remote programming module? i cant seem to download it..

]]> By: Ken_S. http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27402 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:05:22 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27402 I agree; wireless and solar powered would be cooler, but I just knocked it out with the KISS principle.

Tim; how many of these would you need?

]]> By: nick http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27401 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:35:05 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27401 neither geocities nor the cache work. Could someone post the site somewhere? This looks very cool.

]]> By: Taotaoba http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27400 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:28:44 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27400 This is a really awesome job. I gonna make one similar soon. My idea is to hack some cheap solar garden lights to house the sensors and transfer the data wirelessly. It would be more convenient to deploy and rearrange the sensors.

]]> By: Tim http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27399 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:24:23 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27399 This is a really cool project, I work for a non-profit that deals with Peak Oil and energy use, we’ve deployed some weather stations from Davis Instruments to do this kind of stuff, it comes with a wireless console and all sorts of nifty sensors, but the damn things cost $1,000 a pop, this may be a cheap alternative to Davis’s juggernaut. Does anyone feel like getting paid to make a few of these for us?

]]> By: Juan http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27398 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:44:24 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27398 Wow. Hack-a-Day is reading my mind. I had to water a bunch of plants this morning for some family that’s out of town. I was thinking of a set up very much like this on my drive to work. Although my idea was for wireless communication powered by solar panels ala beambots (not sure if it would realistically provide enough power though, but a guy can dream).

]]> By: Andrew http://hackaday.com/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/comment-page-1/#comment-27397 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:45:09 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/07/23/gardenmonitoring-project/#comment-27397 very handy, perticularly if you live in Australia (water restrictions and everything).
If the lawns big enough several of these units and seperate sprinklers could ensure adequate watering where its needed.

Good job.

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