windscreen wipers that dance (well, sort of)
Why take life so seriously?
I actually think this is:
1) quite amusing
2) not that much of a waste of time
3) something I might do to the Lil'van - just for cuteness
okay, okay, it's simple. you have a motor that moves left and right for your windscreen wipers, it's a motor, you have controllers for motors that you can then write code to control them with. I didn't say it was rocket science....and it'll probably end up burning out the wiper motor, but, hey, they're not that expensive (yay! go recycling activists) and if you can find old/abandoned wiper motors to use even better.
On a different note:
I'm still very keen to get around to my FarmerBot system. Next year I really want to have the greenhouse all setup and automated - along with some lovely Machine Learning going on so some lessons can be learnt. ie. I don't want to just read some sensors and have a hardcoded rule that states, if variable X == y and variable Z IN[1,2,3,4,5] and variable A == F then turn on the fan and open the air vent for 4 minutes. Although, that'll probably what will be the outcome will be, but the route to get to that answer will be different....and it'll be learnt, so if one of those variables is slightly different, a judgement call (ranking value) will be used to determine if it's close enough. lol - and to think, some people actually code stuff like that and market it as AI.
anyway, here's a link to an article for me to take a look at over winter.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/growth-monitor-pi-an-open-monitoring-system-for-plant-science/
1) quite amusing
2) not that much of a waste of time
3) something I might do to the Lil'van - just for cuteness
okay, okay, it's simple. you have a motor that moves left and right for your windscreen wipers, it's a motor, you have controllers for motors that you can then write code to control them with. I didn't say it was rocket science....and it'll probably end up burning out the wiper motor, but, hey, they're not that expensive (yay! go recycling activists) and if you can find old/abandoned wiper motors to use even better.
On a different note:
I'm still very keen to get around to my FarmerBot system. Next year I really want to have the greenhouse all setup and automated - along with some lovely Machine Learning going on so some lessons can be learnt. ie. I don't want to just read some sensors and have a hardcoded rule that states, if variable X == y and variable Z IN[1,2,3,4,5] and variable A == F then turn on the fan and open the air vent for 4 minutes. Although, that'll probably what will be the outcome will be, but the route to get to that answer will be different....and it'll be learnt, so if one of those variables is slightly different, a judgement call (ranking value) will be used to determine if it's close enough. lol - and to think, some people actually code stuff like that and market it as AI.
anyway, here's a link to an article for me to take a look at over winter.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/growth-monitor-pi-an-open-monitoring-system-for-plant-science/
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