Hi,
Over the past few months I've finalised the first phase of my first ever project. Over the past 2-3 weeks my watering system have kept my 9 plants alive, but I see some improvement areas. First of I currently utilise 3 pumps to deliver water to 9 plants, this isn't working too well as the plants dont get equal amount of water. Next step is therefore to expand so that I have one pump and one moisture sensor per plant (I'll start with 12), add a Real time Clock so that I can record the time a plant receive water (analysis), storage (SD) to store all sensor measurements and water activities, and nRF2401 to be able to wirelessly transfer the stored sensor data (eg. once a day or every 2 days).
To plan for the new features I've drawn up the Schematics in Fritzing (first time I've done this, so please advice if I should do things differently eg. wire colors, layout, comments), before starting to build this it would be great with some input. I haven't found any errors yet, but Im sure there are some.
The design is based on an Atmega2560 board, with two power supplies. One 12 V (8 x AA batteries) and a 5V (6V) (4 x AA batteries), the former is powering the 12 V pumps, and the 5V is powering the atmega and the sensors etc.
As I am fairly new to the game, please advice on anything you believe is useful.
Over the past few months I've finalised the first phase of my first ever project. Over the past 2-3 weeks my watering system have kept my 9 plants alive, but I see some improvement areas. First of I currently utilise 3 pumps to deliver water to 9 plants, this isn't working too well as the plants dont get equal amount of water. Next step is therefore to expand so that I have one pump and one moisture sensor per plant (I'll start with 12), add a Real time Clock so that I can record the time a plant receive water (analysis), storage (SD) to store all sensor measurements and water activities, and nRF2401 to be able to wirelessly transfer the stored sensor data (eg. once a day or every 2 days).
To plan for the new features I've drawn up the Schematics in Fritzing (first time I've done this, so please advice if I should do things differently eg. wire colors, layout, comments), before starting to build this it would be great with some input. I haven't found any errors yet, but Im sure there are some.
The design is based on an Atmega2560 board, with two power supplies. One 12 V (8 x AA batteries) and a 5V (6V) (4 x AA batteries), the former is powering the 12 V pumps, and the 5V is powering the atmega and the sensors etc.
As I am fairly new to the game, please advice on anything you believe is useful.
