ALMA — Alma farmer Ron Robison will do more with the data he’s gathering this summer from new soil moisture sensors in his fields than complete required reports.

This is a simple arduino project for a soil moisture sensor that will light up a LED at a certain moisture level. It uses Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller board. Two wires placed in the soil pot ...

It’s not infrequent that we see the combination of moisture sensors and water pumps to automate plant maintenance. Each one has a unique take on the idea, though, and solves problems in ways that ...

Ali Abedi (center) and the wireless soil moisture sensor with graduate student Kenneth Bundy (left) and local high school teacher Ed Lindsey (right). Monitoring soil moisture is an important component ...

My perennials always died because I watered them too little or too much, or put them somewhere too dark or too hot. Recently I vowed to keep my plants alive, so I turned to Arduino. I'd been looking ...

Recently, I got a Chirp! plant-watering alarm for evaluation from wemakethings. Chirp, designed to be run on a 3-V CR2032 lithium coin cell, is an electronic plant-watering alarm. You put it into the ...

Most engineers don’t suit up with gardening gloves, but Navid Shaghaghi M.S. ’14 isn’t most engineers. When he’s not in the classroom, the engineering lecturer likes getting his hands dirty. Donning a ...

Alma farmer Ron Robison demonstrates how easy it is to get readings from a display box that is part of soil moisture sensor equipment installed this crop year in his irrigated corn and soybean fields.

Around the Hackaday bunker, any plant other than a cactus has a real chance of expiring due to thirst. Perhaps we should build some of [MakersFunDuck]’s Moisture Duck boards. As you can see in the ...