Going solar: a maintenance-free redesign of my plant watering indicator
If you want one of these indicators yourself then keep an eye on my store for the next revision which I will be putting up for sale in the next few months: https://hortus.dev/.
David Capper
I am an engineering leader with a deep interest in the messy stuff that surrounds developing and shipping products. I'm not attached to any particular technology or tools, and I'm happiest when I can get stuck in with a team to deliver useful things for people. I like doing the hard work to make things simple.
Latest posts
Simulating a glowing fireplace with an RP2040
Building a custom LED fire simulation for a blocked-up fireplace, from prototype to custom PCB and optimised firmware.
Designing an ultra low power plant watering indicator
If you want one of these indicators yourself then I have a few up for sale on my store: https://hortus.dev/products/houseplant-watering-sensor.
Manufacturing and Selling Electronic Badges Part 3: Going from Prototype to Production
I wrote this series of posts primarily for myself, or at least someone who is trying to make something electronic to sell. If that’s you then I hope this helps you on your journey! If you just want to see the end product then you can find it at https://hortus.dev/products/social-battery. This is a long post so I have broken it up into chunks to make it a bit easier to digest. These are: Designing…
Manufacturing and Selling Electronic Badges Part 2: Selling the prototypes online
I wrote this series of posts primarily for myself, or at least someone who is trying to make something electronic to sell. If that’s you then I hope this helps you on your journey! If you just want to see the end product then you can find it at https://hortus.dev/products/social-battery. This is a long post so I have broken it up into chunks to make it a bit easier to digest. These are: Designing…
Manufacturing and Selling Electronic Badges Part 1: Designing and Prototyping the board
I wrote this series of posts primarily for myself, or at least someone who is trying to make something electronic to sell. If that’s you then I hope this helps you on your journey! If you just want to see the end product then you can find it at https://hortus.dev/products/social-battery. This is a long post so I have broken it up into chunks to make it a bit easier to digest. These are: Designing…
Building a Vegetable Encyclopedia Using GPT-4 and DALL-E
Giving yourself room to grow
Bamboo Bridges - a metaphor about optimising for change
Giving yourself room to grow
How I stopped hating Test Driven Development
Giving yourself room to grow
Getting Your Head Around Story Points
Estimating complexity instead of time