In this episode I talk about capacitive soil moisture sensors and why 82% of them dont work correctly. I analyze the 3 most common problems they have by design and show you how to fix them or how to find sensors that work right away.


You can jump to one of these sections:
0:00 Introduction

0:39 Flaura the smart, selfwatering plant pot
1:20 Resistive sensors suck
2:03 Working principle
2:43 Learnings from 38 orders
3:47 Missing voltage regulator
5:11 Wrong timer chip
6:57 Missing resistor connection
9:39 Fixes
10:01 Ordering advices


This is the fourth video of my tutorial series on how to build your own “Flaura”, which is my DoItYourself, Opensource project.

Flaura is a smart, selfwatering plant pot that comes with the following features:
3D printed housing
Integrated water tank
Soil moisture measurement
Automatic watering
Rechargeable battery
Arduino Code
App control and data display
Push notifications

Consider watching the introductory video, to learn more about the features and my future plans with Flaura:    • Flaura – Automatic, Smart Plant Pot (...  
I will release more stepbystep video tutorials here in the future on how to build such a plant pot yourself. Stay tuned!




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