Tool Library

By RaggedStaff

Using a moisture sensor, an Arduino, and a valve we document how to create a simple, battery powered, irrigation controller.

By BOTLFarm

Still a work in progress This will allow you to automatically control artificial light in your chicken coop along with an actuator for a door. 

By DickH

49: IoT* for Farming & 56: Hoop House Temperature Control

By knarc

This is a wireless, solar powered chicken coop sensor that measures ambient temperature and relative humidity inside of a chicken coop. It is made out of the internals of the soil/garden sensor that I posted here.

By kinasmith

Compost Sensor is an open source sensor system for monitoring and recording the temperature and moisture of active compost. It is for small scale commercial composting operations to help with quality control and the certification processes. http://www.instructables.com/id/Compost-Sensor/

By jennajane

Heated greenhouse tables serve two main purpose on the small market garden veggie farm. First, it offers a place with a fairly constant temperature to ensure high germination rates. Not too unlike the Sweat Box Germination Chamber (http://farmhack.org/tools/sweat-box-germination-chamber),...

By roryaronson

FarmBot is humanity's open-source automated precision farming machine. Similar to a 3D printer or CNC router, FarmBot uses an XYZ computer controlled gantry system to precisely position and use any tool or sensor applicable to growing plants such as seed...

By jennajane

This is a very basic temperature data logger built off of an Arduino microcontroller. This will be the basis for expanded projects around measuring and logging temperature

By claytonrcarter

Turn your electric fence on or off with a text message. Get text alerts of power failures (and thus fence outages). Find a short or a broken section of fence way out in the pasture? No need...

By Louis

The goal of this project is to create a wireless and networked irrigation control system for greenhouses. The end goal is to provide a user-interface (UI) from which a farmer could see a map of their nodes, monitor their sensor...