Some pictures have attracted people’s attention, and this is what happened to a post on “recovering supermarket garlic” that we accidentally found on twitter. The more we look at this photo, the more questions we have, and we can’t help contacting the author on twitter – here’s what we learned!
This is an air plant cell – a device that creates suitable conditions for plant growth. The difference between air culture and soil or water culture is that plants are not submerged in soil or water. On the contrary, its roots are dried in the air and sprayed with water mist, which can not only provide sufficient water, but also provide excess oxygen, but also provide a low resistance space for accelerating root growth – all these factors greatly accelerate the nutrient absorption and development of plants. This unit design only takes up a small part of the space on the kitchen countertop. After a week, at least half of the cloves have sprouted!
Like garlic balls, this project also has layers – because this pneumatic cell is also a cellsol node! Cellsol project is a distributed communication system, which can use Lora and WiFi for its physical layer, so that you can build a wide mesh network, and even connect your smartphone to the required location, for example, as the center of other devices connected through the Internet to send data. We have discussed cellsol and its friendliness to hackers before. One of the purposes of this design is to show how any device with a little brain and an sx1276 module can help you form a local cellsol network or participate in some larger volunteer driven cellsol power supply work.
If you’re like us, You see this picture and think, “this is what I really want to see on my desk, [robots everywhere] STL files have been released for making such hydroponic cells at home, as well as all the codes involved and some demonstration videos. Hopefully, the number of aeroponics projects in our tips series will only increase! We have previously introduced the Eden Project, which is an entry of the 2017 hakadi award, which aims to improve the methods of air physics and create an indoor greenhouse. There are also a series of hydroponic projects that add color to our pages, from hardware stores to 3D printing projects!