Wednesday, February 8, 2012

My first arduino project

I am very new to arduino and electronics in general. I am starting out and really enjoying it.
I want, for my very first project, to accomlpish the task of watering my lawn.
I attached a drawing, it is a basic Idea of what I would like to accomplish.

I am looking for any helpful info on this project, and would be very grateful.
you prob. I am also posting these posts in the "project guidance" section of the forums at
arduino.cc and allot of cool people are helping me out.


I have been experimenting with so many different sensor designs and I am going to go with the gypsm block sensor for now.
This is basically 2 wires encased in a plug of plaster of paris.

I realize the limitations of these sensors and if all goes well I will probably replace them with the vegetronix ones eventually.