Electronics! Putting It All Together In deciding what components to use for the control system, we knew that we wanted to consolidate everything. Here is a list of components that we obtained: – Boards SainSmart Mega ADK (Any other… Continue Reading
The first thing to do when creating a garden layout is determining which plants you want to grow. Once you have found some plants, make sure that they grow well in your climate zone. Our garden is in zone 7.… Continue Reading
Once we knew which parts we wanted to use to irrigate the garden, we then had to assemble them and lay them out in the garden. Teflon tape is needed when connecting plumbing parts in order to prevent leakages. Here… Continue Reading
How to build a planter For your rooftop garden you’re going to need something to hold your plants and soil mixture. For our project, we constructed 3’x3’ planters to enable us to implement the square foot gardening method. The… Continue Reading
(Picture of a Sparkfun weather station) For this project, we wanted to be able to post data online to engage the community and participate in citizen science initiatives, along with being as low maintenance as possible. Ideally the… Continue Reading