Backyard Aquaponics
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I did radish micro greens a little in the beginning. Now I would probably just get one of those sprout towers that BullwinkleII uses. But don't let any of that stop you from building an AP system for your chef!

Thanks Jaco.

Thanks Ron, you don't have a link to an image of the sprout tower?

Your welcome, I'm going to catch some goldfish out of our ponds for the new system at work, will take some pics of traps in action.

Ron, is this the sprouter you're refering to?

Yep.

That looks like an excellent sprouter but it's a bit small for the amount of sprouts he needs, our 2 restaurants will use everything in a day. Currently we have a 2x10m greenhouse that just does pea shoots and it can't keep up with the demand.

Got some DS18B20 digital temperature sensors and ATMega328 mcu's yesterday, for some reason I can't load sketches on the new mcu's. I did load the arduino bootloader onto them with my current arduino configured as the ISP. I want to be able to take the new mcu's and put them directly onto my arduino uno board and the upload sketches that way. Is that possible and how would I go about it?

Hmmm, I would suggest you find an arduino forum although there might be a bright spark here that could help you. My eyes glazed over and my brains ran out my ears and I'm a programmer.

Got the mega's running and the thermometer programed and working perfectly, now just need to figure out the code to get it to act as a thermostat, but thats something for another day. Relaxing with a glass of last years homemade red wine...

If temp > too hot -> cool it!
or temp < too cold -> warm it up!

How was that?

I wish it was that easy, I'll just borrow someone else code and modify it.

He he he.
I know what you mean.

I started a change on a program last Friday that should have taken 2 hours. I discovered that the person who implemented it did it in a way which was incredibly shabby and truly shocking in some places. So I set out to fix it. A week later and I am only now finishing up. I've been so buried in code I have forgotten what the original requested change was. I will have to check my documentation tomorrow to jog my memory. But it took me a week to end up with the same functionality that I started the week with. Very strange this programming thing.

Surely you should have samples of that type of code on the net? Thermostat code should be quite common.

I did a search on DuckDuckGo for "arduino thermostat code samples" and there were multiple results that looked promising.

Regards, Martin.

That's probably mostly my problem with borrowing code of the net, 90% of the time I can find multiple samples that does the same thing but look so much different that I get lost in it.
I did a quick search earlier but then I had to finish up so I can watch the finals of kokkedoor. Tomorrow I will use work time to continue searching.

Good luck, I'm sure you'll get it sorted.

Regards, Martin.

Thanks Martin, I hope so. I'm more of a hardware person, this coding thing is very new for me.