I thought you all would get a kick out of this, but i designed my sprinkler system controller using Gladevcp & a few custom hal components. I doubt this was in mind when EMC2 was being made but i figured hey what the heck. I have 9 zones. I bought 9 < http://www.vegetronix.com/Products/Soil-Moisture-Sensor-Probes.phtml> and 9 <http://www.vegetronix.com/Products/THERM200/>, along with 9 small solar cells. i monitor the sensor readings using an atmega micro-controller, pass the analog value to Hal, and adjust each zones watering accordingly. then using a parallel port relay board i turn the valves on and off. I should have it up and running this week. I know I know, why didn't i just write a python program to do it all, well i'm just a linuxcnc fan-boy i guess. Plus i feel like this sprinkler.comp would be a great addition to the component list on the wiki.
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