Build an autonomous greenhouse
Build an autonomous greenhouse syllabus
The capstone for growing things: sense, decide, actuate, and survive the fortnight you are away. Scales out to open ground in the final lesson.
The loop
Sense, then decide, then actuate — in that order, over about ten weeks.
- Two weeks of sensing nothing but data — Log before you act. The setpoint you would have guessed is almost certainly wrong. (30 min)
- The loop that cannot drown them — Closing the loop is easy. Bounding it so a lying sensor cannot destroy anything is the actual work. (35 min, paid)
- Six weeks away, then outdoors — The unattended run that proves it, and the scale-out where you control almost nothing. (35 min, paid)