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1901 points l2silver | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.398s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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greenie_beans ◴[] No.35730448[source]
a soil moisture sensor using capacitors as the sensor. it's how i learned to code. i found a few different versions of the project online. couldn't get them to work very well but i was able to piece together enough knowledge of basic circuits to get the sensor to work well with my own circuit design.

once i got it to work, i left it on my desk for a few months and then cleaned it up/removed the circuit. only documented the circuit by a couple of bad photographs, so i'm not sure how to recreate it. i might could figure it out again if i spent the time, but i've been focused on other projects.

https://github.com/smcalilly/sensor

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1. l2silver ◴[] No.35730884[source]
Be nice to hook that up to some kind of watering system to always have the perfect moisture.
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2. greenie_beans ◴[] No.35731061[source]
yep, that was the goal. my friend had a small organic farm but he lived an hour away and needed a good, cheap watering solution. led me to down a rabbit hole and now i'm a software developer. i'll probably revive it once i have some space to do more serious vegetable growing
3. DANmode ◴[] No.35737789[source]
Geeky misconception: the wet/dry cycle can be optimal.