The Raspberry Pi is an excellent board for all those little projects around the house / office / makerspace that make life easier. In this case, maker Hide Seek is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to help monitor environmental details about their plants and automate a watering system if certain conditions are met.
The automated watering system uses a Pimoroni Pico Display Pack 2.0, a 2-inch LCD screen with buttons on the four corners. Each button is programmed to access part of a UI that Hide Seek developed just for this project. It’s also possible to modify this project with a webserver for remote access and control.
The interface has a few tools that make it easier to interpret data from the sensor and control the pump itself. In the demo video, we see Hide Seek show off a few like the Metrics screen that displays data from a DHT11 sensor via two graphs (temperature and humidity). The…
