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Arduinoponics with OpenWRT

I updated my GitHub repo: http://github.com/nemik/arduinoponics with code I wrote for the OpenWRT firmware (version 8.09.1). It provides an AJAXy-updating page to OpenWRT’s Luci web-interface which displays the analog pin values from the Arduino which the Arduinoponics sketch runs on.
Here is a screenshot, notice the extra ‘Sensors’ link on the top right to access the [...]

Fixing broken JFFS2 partition

Lesson #1 of embedded development: don’t write all your code to your device and not backup/check-in. I did just that when writing some code for the hydroponics monitoring setup on my Fon2100 router running OpenWRT. After trying to opkg install ntpclient and getting a segfault and NTP not working, I restarted  the network on it [...]

New project: Arduinoponics

So I started a new personal project in the past week or so. I built a very crude hydroponics setup using old Gatorade bottles and a Ford windshield washer pump to push nutrient-water through the system from a 2L Coke bottle as the “reservoir”. Ghetto. As. Hell. You can check out pics of it here: [...]