How I upgraded my garden’s ugly drip system with a sexy OpenSprinkler

Posted by BernardSwiss on Feb 23, 2015 8:07 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Cyrus Farivar
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After a few hours of work alongside an electrical engineering buddy this week, my home garden drip system became powered by a Raspberry Pi. I can control the entire thing locally from my iPhone and, to be frank, it’s pretty flippin’ cool.

For some background, I’m a very lazy gardener. When my wife and I bought our house in 2012, our horticultural mission was Hippocratic (do no harm). In other words, we wanted—at the very least—to not kill the plants we inherited from the previous owners.

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