When your residence has soil moisture sensors embedded that were dictated by your friendly neighborhood HoA, you may start asking questions about the system used. That’s what [Modest Maker] did and ...

Every winter, I bring my tropical plants and my cold-tender plants indoors, turning my house into a makeshift greenhouse. My ...

An interdisciplinary team of University of Arizona researchers is building a network of soil moisture probes to improve short-term and seasonal weather forecasting. The National Science Foundation has ...

Platforms that insist on a single global recipe are giving way to systems that adapt to a valley, a village, and sometimes ...

LAKELAND – New soil moisture probes are expected to save water for irrigation, keep nutrients out of groundwater and save money for farmers. The Nature Conservancy and researchers at the University of ...

Moisture management is one of the most important aspects of bringing creeping bentgrass putting greens through a southern summer. Too much moisture encourages maladies such as leaf and newsContent ...

This is a simple arduino project for a soil moisture sensor that will light up a LED at a certain moisture level. It uses Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller board. Two wires placed in the soil pot ...

Soil moisture sensors can help farmers save water, by letting them know when their crops actually need to be watered. A new sensor could be particularly helpful, as it incorporates a special material ...

A new satellite from NASA, scheduled to launch on 29 January, may help to improve those predictions. The Soil Mapping Active Passive (SMAP) probe uses microwave measurements to plot moisture levels in ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

If you compulsively search online for inexpensive microcontroller add-ons, you will see soil moisture measurement kits. [aka] built a greenhouse with a host of hacked hardware including lights and ...