ONE PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED –H2O SCALE August 21, 2022
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As the water situation becomes much more extreme in Northern California water quality changes depending upon the source of water supply. Water hardness has changed many, many times over the last 5 years and I have had to be more careful with pH and hardness when doing water changes or water additions in the fish tanks and monitoring much more and I still end up with this. So I have now developed a plan on what needs to take place and starting to put the plan into action and will be talking about the efforts now as well as other interesting things I am tracking and working at getting put into place in my grow area. Once I have cleaned up the scale issues I can move on to misting systems and use of some more advanced technology to get me to the next level in my efforts.
TOWER SYSTEM – set-up at Maker Faire 2014 May 22, 2014
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EDITOR’S CHOICE – not once – but 3 times @ Maker Faire – WOW May 21, 2014
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Very few displays achieve 3 EDITOR CHOICE AWARDS —
IT’S OFFICIAL – Maker Faire 2014 – we will be there with a booth to show case Tower unit March 24, 2014
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IT’S OFFICIAL NOW:
I’ve been accepted to exhibit at @MakerFaire Bay Area on May 17 & 18, 2014 http://makerfaire.com/
#20475 – internet of farming arduino-based aquaponics
Will be able to show case a number of new leading edge things that I have been developing.
Here are just a few of them:
Design of a “Radial Flow Filter” for the tower unit system ( will be blogging and doing a Youtube video about it shortly”
Venturi DIY design that will replace air pumps on my systems.
Aquaponic Fog Unit that I have just completed and in testing mode now.
Have fully working Tower unit with totally enabled IoT features that show case the latest developments in this technology as related to aquaponics.
agponic – MD — air supply feature March 1, 2014
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A lot of aquaponic systems use air pumps. So what is a aquaponic automation simulator without a air pump! Here is how it is handled and how it is connected up. This air pump comes standard on all the versions. The extra air line is for the planned 12V back-up configuration that is part of the pro version. Well underway on that unit and will have details soon.
ASPARAGUS – year 2 March 1, 2014
Posted by rik94566 in agponics.com, aquaponic automation, aquaponics, asparagus, Crop, DIY aquaponics, IoT aquaponics.Tags: aquaponic automation, aquaponic crop, DIY aquaponics, indoor aquaponics, microcontroller, rik kretzinger, sensor
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Well I am into year 2 with my asparagus. The weather in Northern California has been short on rain and very warm. So no surprise that my asparagus is about 2 months ahead of normal. I was thinking that it would be about a month earl as I can control almost all the environmental factors that impact the growth cycle. Just so happy to see that it survived the winter and growing well. You judge for yourself!
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS — arduberry February 12, 2014
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I have been reading about this product now for a while and finally thanks to J.C. Naumowicz got the link to check it out.
Here is the link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/john-cole/arduberry-unite-raspberry-pi-and-arduino?ref=email
This solution takes care of a number of issues that are hard to solve with arduino or raspberry pi on there own. The two together are truly better together than as individual solutions.
Enjoy and support this effort if it is something you think will be a better solution for us all.
agponic MD – connecton box left side features February 12, 2014
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Here is the configuration of the left side of the connection box.
www.carriots.com — new option in the IoT world of automation February 4, 2014
Posted by rik94566 in agponics.com, aquaponic automation, aquaponics, aquaponics electronics, arduino, Carriots, DIY aquaponics, Internet-of-Farming, IoT aquaponics.Tags: aquaponic automation, automation, Controlled Environment Agriculture, DIY aquaponics, indoor aquaponics, microcontroller, rik kretzinger
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Last week I was very charged up about the blog posting by Home Automation. It was not that the work they were talking about was that outstanding, it was more about the API he was using called CARRIOTS. It can be found at http://www.carriots.com. There have been a number of similar type products hitting the market place recently by a number of different organizations and companies. What I found most impressive with this was the fact that it was very straight forward and well documented with a clear pricing structure that was affordable for hackers. The better news is that they have tech support as part of the reason they are in business. Even better is that with this product it can be used in place of two products (APduino & Xively) because it has features that are found in both the other two services like “RULES”. Can’t wait to see what we all can do with a easy to use and less resource intensive API.
Check out this tutorial:
https://www.carriots.com/tutorials/Arduino_RPi_Carriots/flowmeter
Here is a cool project that will help you see what can be done with this service:
agponic-MD — features defined February 4, 2014
Posted by rik94566 in 1-wire, agponic MD, agponicMD, agponics.com, aquaponic automation, aquaponics, aquaponics electronics, DIY aquaponics, DS18B20, indoor aquaponics, indoor growing, Internet-of-Farming, IoT aquaponics, One-wire, PRODUCTS, Stainless Steel Temp Probe, Temperature Probe.Tags: 1-wire, aquaponic automation, automation, DIY aquaponics, DS18B20, indoor aquaponics, rik kretzinger, sensor, Temp Probe, Temperature Probe
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Now that the basic agponic-MD unit is completed – I am working through all the different features that can be found on the unit and define there functions.
Here is one side of the connection box at the back of the unit.
Aquaponic DIY Automation Blog 