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 sam_uk

Build a network of soil moisture sensors that report the state over long distances.

By Kristen Loria

This tool is used to allow remote control of a tractor mounted flame weeder. The arduino measures the temperature at the burner, and when no flame is detected sends an ignition spark to the burner. Both the arduino and...

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 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...