Week 1

The Automated Mushroom Grow Chamber

my final project idea is going to be an autamated mushroom grow chamber. Ideally this chamber should be able to monitor and ajust moisture, temperature & CO2 levels in a mushroom mycelium block I aim to acheive this using a variety of sensors, a Fan for air flow and co2 controll and some piezo elecreic humidifyers. I got this Idea from a cody'slab video witch i have linked to below. Although I got this Idea from his video I intend to do this on a much smaller scale and with allot more automation for those who may not have a whole room to dedicate to mushroom growing and want something more user friendly

Cody's video

I started of by focusing on learning enough HTML to atleast be able to make a coheirent website for documentation and display. next I focused on learning git and getting git and VS code to play nice, i had some issues in that regard but a few google searches later i had found all the fixes I nedded to get everything working correctly. links to the relevent videos will be provided below

HTML Tutorial

Gitlab & VS code integration

Fix for the integration issue I encountered

next step was to think of something do for my final project. I ended up deciding to make the Mushroom Growchamber as I am quite fond of mycology but growing mushrooms is hard and takes allot of maintainence to do it right.

Just for fun I started some tests using what I had on had and canibalized a handsanitizer mister for its circuit and piezo. using this I was able to try out the component and see how best to feed it water