Open Source Isopods

What is an aquarium?

What is a terrarium?

What is a paludarium?

My paludarium

"Hey, I want a glass box filled with plants and animals as well"

1. Catch yourself some geckos

2. Catch yourself some shrimp

3. Catch yourself some isopods

4. Catch yourself some plants

5. Put them in a box

What do you need?

Lights

A pair of aquarium lights on the cheaper side: ~120€.

Misting system

Anywhere from 100€ to 400€.

If you go for the cheap stuff that can be annoying in the future e.g. a small water tank for the misting system, if something breaks you are out of luck.

Make a <s>worse</s> better version yourself

Catch yourself some components

• LED strips - 20€?
• any microcontroller or even a Raspberry Pi - 5 to 50€
• a relay module - almost nothing
• humidity/temperature sensors - almost nothing
• ultrasonic distance sensors - almost nothing
• an aliexpress misting system - 40€?

Lights

Lights

Lights

Water tank / water level sensor / water pump

Nozzles

Temperature / humidity sensor

Connect it together

Make Grafana show some numbers

Does it work or is it a massive bodge?

Mushroom

Mastodon with a link to the repo / some pics

https://chaos.social/@whatareyoudoinginmyswamp

Thank you