Self Watering Bot - Stardance

Ship #1 Pending review

@Harug on Self Watering Bot · about 1 month ago

This is a bot that waters your plants for you! You put the sensor into your potting soil, and either put a tube for your pump, or just put it facing at your pot, put in a 9v, and plug in the cable and you are good to go! This is my first project so I was very nervous, shorted the esp32 a couple of times (Whoops!), so it took much longer as well. A couple of hours were spent offline figuring out how the code and all worked but I was not allowed to put it in the final shipped time, so this took more around 7-8 hours. Either way, this was a great first project, that made me a lot more fond so I hope on doing better in the future and keep building. Thank you Stardance for making this opportunity possible!!

2 devlogs
3h build

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@Harug on Self Watering Bot · about 1 month ago

24m 4s logged

Project completed! For some reason 1 hr was taken off of my time? Not sure why, however it has been completed. The only thing that would finish this up would be to use a tube instead of a bottle, however budget restraints stop that, and I am not really going to bother Stardance with a single pipe. This was my first project and I feel great. I learned all about esp mechanics, how to use a relat module, how to read analog and digital signals, and how to code. I am deeply appreciative at this time, and plan on pursuing other projects. It is quite simplistic, however very nice!

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@Harug on Self Watering Bot · about 1 month ago

2h 13m 50s logged

Very fun work so far, was able to get the pump to work well, almost fried my esp32, but was eventualy able to get my relay system working. I also got the code to work, so now I have to wire everything, and finish up the code. For a first project so far, it has been very fulfilling, however very challenging.