Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor v0.0

http://www.deepdarc.com/soil-moisture-sensor/

Created by Robert Quattlebaum [email protected]

Important Notice

This project is unreleased and under active development. It is not advisable to start building any significant number of these sensors until this project is officially released. However, if you would like to contribute to help speed this project along, any help is more than welcome.

Hardware Specifications

Capacitive Sensor

• Observed Precision: ±0.5% @ 3.3v, ±0.2% @ 5.0v
• Observed Accuracy: ±10%
• Raw Resolution: 16 Bits
• Calibrated Resolution: 10 Bits

Temperature Sensor

• Observed Precision: ±0.1°C
• Observed Accuracy: ±5.0°C
• Resolution: 12 Bits

License

Software is licensed for use under the GPLv2 (See COPYING-SW)

Hardware is licensed for use under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 (See COPYING-HW)