Wearables to track plant health: Farmers could use real-time information to manage crop conditions

A smartwatch can tell us the level of oxygen in our blood, when our sleep is restless or the number of steps we take in a day ...
Hackaday

An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen By AI

Oh, the farming lifestyle…living off the land, fending for yourself. But who’s got time for all that? For the modern hacker, ...

I Wanted an Ecologically Responsible Garden. It Was Harder Than I Thought.

In the summer of 2020, my husband, Ryan, and I bought a house in Portland, Ore., with a sizable backyard containing little ...
University of California, Davis

Students Learn Plant Breeding, Gain Career Experience

How does plant breeding support organic farming? Students are developing new crops that help organic farmers grow healthy, ...

Hidden fungal networks deliver carbon to green plants, experiment confirms

Beneath forests, grasslands and wetlands lies a hidden underground network of fungi known as mycorrhizal networks, sometimes ...
Electronic Design

Bridging Microcontrollers and High-Speed RF Instrumentation

How microcontrollers and single-board computers coordinate high-speed RF acquisition and generation. How SCPI and UART commands let simple controllers use advanced measurements without FPGA ...
SlashGear

6 Easy Arduino Projects For Beginner Coders

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you have an interest in electronics and have been hanging around DIY tech forums for a while now, chances are you already know what an ...