chiliPi

DIY: Watch your chili plant grow.

Prerequisites

What you'll need:

• Some working-knowledge with linux and python is fine.

• A small flower pot, potting soil and chili seeds.

• Raspberry Pi with preinstalled Image (I am using Raspbian).

• Raspberry Pi Cam (I am using v2.1).

• Python 3 (libraries skimage, numpy).

  sudo pip3 install scikit-image numpy

• MEncoder https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/MEncoder/

  sudo apt install mencoder lame

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Instructions:

1. Put some soil into the flower pot and bury a few chili seeds in it. Water the plant!

2. Build a camera mount.

   

3. Make sure to be in your home directory of the raspberry. E.g. /home/pi/

4. Clone this repository to your raspberry with command:

   git clone https://github.com/UfukAltiparmakoglu/chiliPi.git

5. Create a new entry in your crontab:

   crontab -e

   Insert new line with following contents:

   0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /home/pi/chiliPi/cam.py

   This will run the py script every 2 hours infinitely

6. After a while, you will have collected enough pictures of your plant.

   

7. Let's make a video of it:

   Run the python script chiliPi_scanner.py like so:

   python3 chiliPi_scanner.py

   This script will get rid of pictures which are too dark and produce the final video.

8. Now there should be a video called chiliPi.mp4 in your chiliPi folder. Congratz, you made it!