Garden Geek

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= GardenGeek.org showcases open source and open hardware projects for gardeners, urban farmers, and agricultral geeks. We love DIY instructible tutorials, arduino projects, open source apps, and open weather stations.

URL = http://GardenGeek.org


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"Last January, I started searching for tools to help me grow my garden. I'm a lazy software hacker by profession, and a planner by nature. I wanted tools to help me create a garden calendar and plot out my garden, and some electronics to automatically water my plants in the summer.

I never found any really good freely available tools, and certainly no open source tools, so I gave up and started writing my own. I ended up creating several different projects, including an Android app called ColdSnap that notifies of incoming frosts, a garden calendaring/todo list tool, and an Arduino-based watering system, loosely based off the Garduino. You can find those tools on github.

This January, I presented my tools at Linux Conference Australia in a talk called "Growing food with Open Source". I was amazed by the interest from the conference attendees, and by how many people told me about geeky garden projects I had never heard of. There was one person who told me they had already developed a project similar to the Garduino, but they were too worried about being in front of an audience to ever present it!

Of course, I wanted to keep in contact with all the awesome garden hackers at LCA, and hear about any projects they were working on. I realized there was no online representation for this community, where people combine their technology and science expertise with their passion for gardening. So I created it." (http://www.gardengeek.org/)

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