Category: Greenhouse
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Greenhouse Bench Prototype
I’ve created a prototype of a greenhouse bench based on my memory of benches used in greenhouses made by Fricker’s Greenhouses of San Gabriel and Southern California Greenhouse Manufacturers of El Monte. Both of this institutions have vanished and there is almost nothing available on the Internet about them. This was a project scheduled for…
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Emergency Debridement Surgery
A prized orchid I purchased several weeks ago which bloomed and suddenly became overcome by rot needed quick action. I have never seen anything spread so quickly. I sent and email and left a voice mail with the Florida vendor Saturday afternoon when I discovered the rot, but they had closed for the weekend. As…
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Visual Diff Of Printed Circuit Boards
A light meter project that measures sunlight in a similar way that a rain gauge measure rainfall caught my interest. I’ve been trying to measure how much sunlight my orchids receive in the greenhouse during low sun months in Salem, OR. The project is a paper published in Electronics titled “Open-Source Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensor…
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Greenhouse Sensors: Version 1
Below are the three sensors I assembled for tracking environmental data. I have two in the greenhouse and then one outside. Currently, the three sensors provide temperature, humidity, and power readings every second and send their data by radio to the base station where the data is then saved into a database. From the database,…