Day #3-4

These days were quite the progressive ones. I had a lot of trouble trying to understand how I could simulate the circuitry of my project accurate enough.

First I was thinking of using TinkerCard. It was pretty useful. I was able to use it to learn and practice circuitry using arduino. But it was very limiting and didnt have the components I was looking for (ESP32)

While in my search I was able to find wokwi. Wokwi is incredible, let me tell you that. There I just could do everything. There wasnt all the components I needed but I was able to find a replacement for them (temporary).

At the end I had a:

• Relay modul (for the water pump)
• Relay modul (for the LED lights)
• ILI9341 2.8” screen (for the screen)
• Potentio meter (as a replacement for soil moisture sensor)
• Potentio meter (as another replacement for soil PH sensor)
• DHT22 (for air quality)
• BreadBoard (will be replaced later)
• ESP32 S3 (prolly use another version of the ESP32 but I will use it for now.)

Thankfully I was able to kinda have a demo at the end as well. These two sessions had a lot more success than I thought it would. I thought I would just be spending time learning, but I was able to create a demo.

Day #2.

So today I just messed around with what components I would be using for my pot. Since I lack severe knowledge required for the pot I just did what I could and used what knowledge I had. Of course most of the components that I did choose are placeholders. I mean if they work I will prolly keep em.

So here are the components that I have currently chosen:

1. An LED flourescent light that helps the plant photosynthesize.
2. DTH22 Temperature sensor
3. Capacitive dirt moisture sensor
4. Moisture sensor
5. A 6V DC water pump
6. ESP32 chip
7. MP1584 resistor
8. 12V 2 channel Relay Module
9. MAX485 Module
10. Temporary: jumper wire + breadboard.

So these are all the components that I currently think I will need. I will try and learn how to actually wire these in tomorrows session most likely? And I will prolly use some simulators for it too. And thats all for today.

Day #1.

So today was the day I created the idea for the pot. I had the idea of an AutoPot before but I didnt really have a vivid picture of it, so yeah. Today I mapped out an example sketch of it.

At first I was anxious. I thought that my idea was too overpopulated, there were like a lot of ideas earily similar to mine. So I started to become less motivated. But then, I started noticing a pattern. Not a single one of the pots had all the features and ideas of MY version of the AutoPan.

So I started to note down all the features of my Pot and add features that I didnt have. So collectively I had the ultimate autopot. Here are all the features.

Features:

• Comes in 3 different sizes (you have 3 different sized models)
• An LED flourescent light that helps the plant photosynthesize.
• Sensors to sense the temperature, moisture, quality of the dirt.
• A pump for watering preferrably from an external source.
• An app connected to your Wi-Fi, in which you can choose what plant is inside of the pot and based on your choice the app will recommend and adject its features (LED, Water), or give you a recommendation (swap out dirt or too hot).
• Maybe be a screen for the Plant (optional idk for now, because it might increase price too much)