#homesteadUnmoderated tagAll postsTrendingHotNewPromotedPayoutsnewton666 in #hive-123046 • 2 years agoThe science contained in a sweet potato flowerGreetings again to the universe of hive lover of science and biology, continuing witsolominer in #hive-129017 • 2 years agoSolar powered landscape lights project - Digging the trenchesSince building my first solar project, I have wanted to do more. Though my water pump build for my A/C barrels did not need more power. So I had to think up a new use for a solar…leifasaur in #hive-140635 • 9 months agoBeen about a month time for another garden updateWow it has been a month already since my late may update. June has been going well. There has been less pressure from pests and a lot more growth with weekly rain storms. Ileifasaur in #hive-140635 • last yearA blessing and a curse, endless free mulchYesterday the sea deposited large amounts of seaweed on the beach at the hotel I am working at. I had been waiting for the return of some seaweed as it is supposed to be amazing…solominer in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoNew bee species making a home in my bee boardsI have expanded my solitary bee homes to new locations. One of them is further up in the mountains from my home, and I was curious what kind of bees would check out the homes I…peershof in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoProject Water Tank 7000LToday I would like to present one of my projects, my water tank for collecting rainwater. I decided to collect the rainwater for 3 reasons: The first reason is that my farm is…gogreenbuddy in #hive-163521 • last yearMoving a heavy thicknesserMoving heavy things often has to be done with tricks as it's often heavier than the machine can handle. In our case, we got a fairly light loader that can handle 650kg. Farm erobingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoInstalling the Mosquitto mqtt broker on Raspberry PiGood morning! In the previous post we went over the setting up of your first flow with Node-Red and my irl brother Randy @mytechtrail shared his first [setup](robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoPrototyping and Breadboarding your circuitsGood Morning! Most of my posts have covered the software side of my systems. I did go through wiring up the 12V LED light strips to the Pi with MOSFETS in Part III of the…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoRaspberry Pi Home Automation Part VIn part 4 of this series I shared some pictures of the LED light strips in action and the small relay board that I use when I want to control a device with power that is…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoRaspberry Pi Home Automation Part IIIIn my second post I shared how easy it was to recycle an old PC power supply. Just don't forget the fuses, my PS can deliver 5V @ 15A & +12V @ 16A & 18A, more than enough to…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoFirst Node-Red Flow on a Raspberry PiGood Morning! In the last post we covered how to install or update the Node-Red software in your Raspberry Pi as well as install the dashboard that will allow us to generate…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoInstalling Node-Red on a Raspberry PiToday I would like to go over how to install the Node-Red software on your Raspberry Pi. The Raspbian Operating System comes with Node-Red, but I'm not sure what version, or if…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoRaspberry Pi Home Automation Part VIIn my fifth post we went over the basics of Node-Red, how to install it in a Raspberry Pi and some of the webpages generated by it and the controls utilized on the…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoRaspberry Pi Home Automation Part IVIn my first post I went over the layout of my Raspberry Pi home automation system. In my second post I went into a little bit more detairobingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoUsing the mqtt nodes in Node-Red on the Raspberry PiGood Morning! In my previous post I went over how to install the mosquitto mqtt broker on the Raspberry Pi and a brief explanation of how I use Node-Red to send and receive…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoNode-Red Tabs on Raspberry PiGood Morning! In my previous post on using mqtt with Node-Red, @mytechtrail had asked how to add different tabs for the different flows that could be on separate Pi's.…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoRaspberry Pi Home Automation Part IIIn my previous post, I showed the entire Raspberry Pi circuit, including the power supply, Pi, MOSFET Switch Board & the Relay board. Today I'll show close up pics of the…robingreig in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoRaspberry Pi PicoI just read about the newest member of the raspberry pi family, the pico , at an unbelievable price of $5.24CDN (4USD I believe?)solominer in #hive-163521 • 2 years agoSolar powered landscape lights project - Making connectionsWith the landscape lights in place, it is now time to connect the battery, solar panels and lights into the junction box. This will allow easy connection and disconnection of…
