The Grove Smart Plant Care kit from Seeed Studio takes plant care to a whole new level by combining Grove modules with your Arduino or OrangePip. There's a set of sensors to monitor the plant's environment including temperature and humidity, moisture, and sunlight. Then there's a simple watering system with a water pump, a relay to control the pump, and a flow sensor. And finally there's the control system which has an OLED display, a rotary encoder,and a push button. All these components are supported by a Grove base shield which plugs into your Arduino or compatible microcontroller. As well as keeping your plant healthy, this kit offers a great opportunity to learn about sensors and control systems. Many other Grove add-on modules are available allowing you to expand the plant care system. For example, it would be very simple to add a flashing LED as an alarm if the water reservoir runs dry. Seeed provide technical documentation, example projects and software libraries on their product pages. if you require this information please visit wiki.seeedstudio.com. |
