Backyard Aquaponics
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Hey there to everyone!

My name is Jacques, and I'm a South African currently living and working in beautiful Switzerland. In the canton of Fribourg to be exact, which is on the western side of Switzerland in the pre-Alps.

I've been an anonymous browser to this site for a short while mainly looking at other folk's setups and trying to learn from their experiences.

Switzerland experiences all seasons, where in Summers we can easily have 30+C temperatures, down to -15 or so in Winter (where I'm living at least). This presents an interesting problem to solve when thinking about setting up an exterior Aquaponics setup. My plan for now is to build a geodesic dome in my garden to house the setup but I need to be able to manage the environment in order to sustain healthy conditions for plants and fish alike.

I'm a system engineer/software developer and so I'd like to use my skills into developing a complete environmental management solution and automate as much as possible. I'm going to be using a Raspberry Pi as the central controller and will develop a Aquaponics management framework in Python which I will open source for anyone to use.

My first project on this journey is to build a micro AP setup in order to develop the first iteration of the software. If anyone here has any suggestions/plans for a micro setup I'd love to hear from you.

Looking forward to sharing and learning with everyone on this wonderful site!

Take care,
-Jacques

Welcome to the forum.

I wish you good success with your plans, keep us informed with pictures etc. Will be nice to see as I am an tech freak as well and will start some automation on the weekend. Just got two microcontrollers and cleaned the laptop to install all the required software.

Cheers

Hi Jacques

Just wondering if have any updates on the system you mentioned. Did you get it up and running?

Happy growing!