Research - ArtTHEbard/Hydro-Pi-nics GitHub Wiki
Literature
Intro to Hydroponics (SJ)
This book is a comprehensive beginners guide to hydroponics. This will be useful for us to gain the gardening knowledge in order to better automate the process.
Baras, Tyler. DIY Hydroponic Gardens : How to Design and Build an Inexpensive System for Growing Plants in Water, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.cobalt.champlain.edu/lib/champlain/detail.action?docID=5345122.
Urban Gardening
Highlights the importance of the system and its implications as well as provides information for measuring and controlling nutrients and water conditions for hydroponics. A solid book for looking at the setup of the growing equipment.
Espiritu, Kevin. Field Guide to Urban Gardening : How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds * Vertical Gardening * Indoor Edibles * Balconies and Rooftops * Hydroponics, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.cobalt.champlain.edu/lib/champlain/detail.action?docID=5774793.
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Explanation of Cockpit (SJ)
This article introduces and explains Cockpit, a monitoring service that can be used with Raspberry Pi's. This software is definitely on the list to be used in our project.
Formy-Duval, Alan, "Manage your Raspberry Pi with Cockpit", accessed at May 19th, 2021: https://opensource.com/article/21/5/raspberry-pi-cockpit
Interesting smart phone controlled setup. (CM)
Has a really nice grow setup but maybe not what we need for the networking side of things. It also has some 3d printing files for pipes and specific joints. I like the housing unit for the Pi.
Technovation, "Raspberry Pi Powered IOT Garden", retrieved Sept 1, 2021 at:
https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-Powered-IOT-Garden/
Complete build guide that is a bit extra. (CM)
Really great setup and detailed steps for everything from building to programming the Pi and connecting boards. Potentially high budget and some things can definitely be altered. Has some awesome links at the bottom for plant growing.
Gabriel, Kyle. "Automated Hydroponic System Build", retrieved at Sept 3rd at: https://kylegabriel.com/projects/2020/06/automated-hydroponic-system-build.html#Materials_Parts_List
Demonstration of Pi controlled plant watering (SJ)
Another example of Pi sensors working with physical pumps to maintain healthy water levels in a growing environment. Most interesting to our project is the collection of open source Python scripts used in the project.
Whittaker, Ashley. "Raspberry Pi Zero waters your plants and records time-lapse", retrieved Sept 10, 2021 at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero-waters-your-plants-and-records-growth-timelapse/
Creating A Pump System
Great build of the nutrient pump system done on a budget. Fully compatible with mycodo. https://www.anyleaf.org/blog/project:-building-an-automatic-ph-doser
Plant nutrients and ppm for lettuce
A brief power point showing ideal growing conditions for lettuce as well as equations for converting PPM and EC.
Plant Needs Chart
Large list of plants and the conditions they thrive in. The EC will need to be converted to match what the atlas sensor is giving out for measurements.
https://happyhydrofarm.com/ph-ec-hydroponic-vegetable/
Install guides and code
Design project 1
Mycodo install guide https://kizniche.github.io/Mycodo/
Cockpit install guide https://cockpit-project.org/running
PFSense Configuration https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/index.html
IMP 1
Pi Pinout Info https://pinout.xyz
Imp 2
Thingspeak rpi guide https://iotdesignpro.com/projects/how-to-send-data-to-thingspeak-cloud-using-raspberry-pi