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![]() I have been playing around with Arduinos for a couple of years now and have big plans for building some type of aquarium controller that is web enabled. These plans usually surface at night over a couple of beers and fade by morning but this little one stuck, probably because it was easy.
*** Disclaimer -- This project deals with electricity and if you are foolish enough to try it you accept all consequences. I used the following instructables to get the basic idea. http://www.instructables.com/id/Yet-...er-Controller/ The pictures are actually of my Wavemaker -- Doser combined but for this DIY I will explain just the Wavemaker portion. List of ingredients: Arduino - Mine is a duemilanove but anyone will due. 1 Deep receptacle box. Rona or HD Face Plate 1 Receptacle 1 5v Relay (Lee's Electronics on Main) Wire - I used cat5 2 Koralia Evolution Power Heads I ended up taking all the pictures once the project was done as I didn't think to share until I was about finished and thought "I wonder if anyone else would want to do this?"
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210 Gallon slowly gaining population. Foxface, Naso, Coral Beauty, 2 Clowns, 2 Chromis, Orange Anthias, and Striped Goby. Last edited by plutoniumJoe; 11-13-2010 at 03:40 PM. |