The goal of this project is to help users grow plants. Keeping plants alive can be a lot of work and we think that technology can help us with that. We want to create a system that is flexible and extensible, so that it can be used to water your cactus once a month but also to produce food for hundreds of people.

We try to design a modular system. Sensors and Actuators will be connected to arduinos that serve as an abstraction layer and all the regulating algorithms run on a PC (like the beagle bone black or raspberry pi). A shared database will provide information on ideal environment settings.

We use the arduino family of microcontroller boards with costume shields and a beagle bone black as PC. Alternativly other PC hardware can be used.

• For programming the arduinos: Ino
• For designing printed circuit boards (pcb): Kicad
• As database we use: MariaDB
• For the web-ui: Pyramid, Sqlalchemy redis-py pyserial
• The preffered programming language is: Python 3

1. Create a virtual python environment

   ./setup_virtualenv.sh source env34/bin/activate

2. Setup software part: read the README file in FarmGUI

3. building arduino firmware with ino (on arm)

   ino build --cppflags="-fno-use-cxa-atexit -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -g -Os -w"