Next Steps
There's lots of design and technical work ahead! Here are some of the steps.
Design your Data Dashboard
You'll need to plan your dashboard. You are required to stream your temperature, light, and moisture data. Add humidity for bonus data. How do you want to organize the data? What do you want to call your feeds?
How often do you want to post the data? Every 30 minutes? every 15?
Get your sensors posting!
You know how to hook up all three sensors. Can you get all of them to post to your dashboard?
Test your watering system
If you don't get your watering system working well, you'll flood your plant, which can cause rot and attract bugs. Make sure you're not going to overwater or underwater your new friend.
Before you plant your seeds, experiment with some soil. See what kinds of readings you're getting.
Get your seeds planted
Once you feel like you have the watering system down, it's time to plant the seeds.
You don't need to plant all of them! Keep some incase of a redo.
Work on a light spectrum
You'll get increased growth if you can give your plants good light on dark/short days and into the evening. Research and program a cycle based on the measured light.
Design a way to hold your motor and sensors.
These items can just hang around but it's pretty sloppy. You're a pro inventor! You want to think about what light will land on the light sensor. You don't want it measuring the RGB ring. You want to face it somewhere that captures the ambient light.
Start Monitoring the Growth!
Modify as needed.
Harvest as needed.
Note: If you are getting errors sending data, try reseting the microcontroller in your code.