“It’s a cheap way to monitor lighting, irrigation,
It’s a cheap way to monitor lighting, irrigation, water
quality, humidity, temperature, wind speed, hydration
water quality, humidity, temperature,
rates — all kinds of applications to help the small
wind speed, hydration rates — all kinds of
grower. You don’t need scientific accuracy just to grow
some tomatoes in your backyard, and slaving a bunch of
applications to help the small grower.”
Raspberry Pi’s together will do the job needed
without any bells and whistles.”
Little explains further that a home grower
can easily build a redundant system with
more than one control in operation, should one
happen to malfunction.
“Build yourself something small to accomplish
your needs. Don’t be afraid to try something new,
because when your price point is less than $50,
you’re less afraid of frying or bricking one of
these devices and because of the limited dollars
involved, it allows for a redundant system. The
beauty of this is you can have several controls
and if one goes down, it’s not going to take out
your whole system.”
Billing himself as a pioneer in heuristic
engineering, Little is a proponent of building
an urban microculture entity that would target
urbanites with a blockchain-based app to allow
them to get started on growing their own food
more efficiently. Based on local information, it
would provide recommendations on what crops
to grow, how, and when — kind of a socially
motivated data base of information that easily
accessible for anyone.
A single board Raspberry Pi works great as a controller that can be connected to sensors.
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