We have finally added the moisture component as we think that coding the amount of time that the light is set to stay on for will take a bit longer, originally the light would be kept on for thirty minutes to an hour except who wants to constantly turn off and on LED lights for something that will die anyway, some people would. To have the light turn off automatically and on is probably easier to code than the actual timer itself.

Now talking about the MOISTure sensor… It is meant to test the humidity of the room or test the MOISTure level of the soil for maximum GROWTH.

After testing the moisture level with the humidity of the room (which might be two different things) we found it to be inaccurate therefore focusing on max growth of a plant.

If you think about it, this would also be great if you have pets who need warm moisturized soil, or warmth in general ie. Salamanders, frogs and toads. Maybe we could code in a fan attachment.

I and my partner are making a micro: bit that is used to help with adjusting the level of light from LEDs and or light for reading and such. After creating the code for it we knew that it was too simple for what we were assigned. It did do what was required of it, detecting what the level of light was and signifying to us that it was too low.

We are now thinking that the problem we could solve would be about not just about the level of light but also the humidity in the room, although we may not be able to do this because of the limited devices we can use. One of the devices that we could probably use would be the moisture sensor as well as a fan add-on for when it gets too hot. Using the moisture sensor to sense the humidity wouldn’t be accurate enough for it to work. A way to work around this block is by changing what we are trying to solve (light being too bright or dark), to make plants grow faster with the help of these two sensors (light, Moisture)