All of the buildings, all of those cars
were once just a dream
in somebody's head
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
For the enclosure I wanted something special and not some boring metal or 3D printed box most projects end up in (if at all). For this I found inspiration with DIY Perks on YouTube.
Since it’s a bit hard to get a dedicated wire into my house just to transfer the measurements to where I want to see them, I decided to try out a wireless solution. I ended up using the very inexpensive 433 MHz RF modules for Arduino which seems to work well for me since the signal only has to cover a distance of a few meters. On the other hand, the sender will be located below ground level and there is a metal lid above it as well that can block the signal.
Since an Arduino will be inside the rainwater tank, I will need some electricity there as well. I could exclude using batteries since an Arduino isn’t exactly low power and I needed to power some sensors as well.
I finally moved from an apartment to a house. That also meant, I suddenly had a garden to take care of. The first year was spend with cleaning up the ground. There was plenty of construction material leftovers from the construction company. And a lot of weed. Every evening I cleaned up a small area of the ground with a sieve sifting out stones and weeds up to 30 cm deep. I ended up with at least 600 kilo’s of stones and too many bags of weeds to count.
With the HiFi furniture being sorted, time to look into some acoustic damping, aka bookshelves…
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