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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
The Garduino Indoor Garden Controller

MAKE Demos , Sunday 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM MAKE author Luke Iseman shows how he used an Arduino microcontroller and simple sensors to make his Garduino garden controller. It waters his plants, switches the lights on and off, and even alerts him if the plants get chilly.

Learn about gardening with computers, from an amateur at both! MAKE author Luke Iseman shows how he used an Arduino microcontroller and simple sensors to make his Garduino indoor garden controller. Now it waters his plants, turns on the lights, and even alerts him if the plants get too chilly. He'll talk about how we might achieve food autonomy by combining a little tech with a lot of seeds. Feel free to bring your Arduinos, plants, and ideas for combinations thereof!

Web site: http://makezine.com/18/garduino/

About the Maker(s)

Luke Iseman [
More of an entrepreneur than an engineer, Luke sometimes tries to build things. Current projects are an amalgamation of clean tech, sustainable housing, and other topics that Luke wonders why somebody smarter didn't build years ago!
http://lukeiseman.com