Objective: Develop a small-scale indoor conservatory (FLORA) for floricultural research and development that utilizes microcontroller technology.
Project Summary
- Develop a small-scale indoor conservatory (FLORA) that utilizes a Microchip Tech Curiosity Nano and incorporates Configurable Logic Block (CLB) functionality
- Build a novel application for floricultural research and development
- Hardware consists of a home-built indoor conservatory that includes LED lights, a cooling fan, temperature and humidity sensors
- The initial conceptual design was focused on light and fan cooling controls
- Future iterations will incorporate a range of sensors, i.e. air quality, humidity, light spectrum, soil moisture, and more
- Specific miniature flora was selected to evaluate the concept of operation
- In this case, Dwarf Basil seeds
Remaining Tasks and Future Expansion Opportunities
•Integrate code
•Test and debug
•Incorporate additional sensing; CO2, humidity, light mirroring, soil moisture +
•Add Graphical User Interface touchscreen
•Incorporate more species of plants with pre-programmed capability
•Create data visualization for sensor data + growth metrics
•Investigate AI opportunities for driving control algorithms
