Outback Hack is a series of exercises on how to make a soil moisture sensor with an Arduino Kit. Through this training, we will go through programming concepts, and the basic ideas behind electrical engineering and coding.
For this workshop, you will need:
1x Arduino Uno 1x Breadboard 5x M-to-F jumper cable 1x Soil moisture Sensor 2x Resistors 2x LED 1x USB-D A laptop with the Arduino IDE installed
Outback Hack is composed of three primary modules, each covering one particular aspect of programming.
1.) The Arduino Board - What is programming?
2.) Sensor modules - What are inputs? What does it mean to have an output for your program?
3.) LEDs - What are parameters and thresholds? How do we make our output useful?
Each of the modules represents an addition into the soil moisture monitor. A soil moisture that you can eventually use to notify you via SMS if your paddock or plants need watering.
If you run into anything, just give your coaches a shout! We'll be happy to help you.