Let's do Herb Planters!!!!!
Had a bit of a random side-quest this year after realising all my outdoor herbs had died! My herb beds looked like there'd been a nuclear winter, so I figured I'll solve that with a Fallout-proof Herb Vault!!!
Enjoy!!
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Any update on the Herbus lately?
Katie, For your LED grow light strips, did you use a 4 Red, 1 Blue LED sequence strip, or individual white LEDs or individual LEDs with the RED/BLUE spectrum?
Great video!! Any plans to post the STL files? I would love to make one!
Of course, I've posted them in the discord already, just need a couple of days to finish the webpage on my site to give more details. In the medium term, I want to make this fully parametric so you can make yours customised to you too!
Amazing!
I have a couple of spools of white filament on the way. I'd love to add this to the different planting setups my wife and I have. The design looks great. I'd be happy to print and do some beta testing. When you expect to have the files available?
Hey Stephen, I'm aiming for this coming weekend, just need a quiet moment to tidy it up a bit and jot down a few notes for people!! (You can see from my latest post what's absorbing all my time this week!)
You're putting bad thoughts in my brain again! Must... buy... CO2... laser engraver/cutter! This is the sort of project I've been too lazy to get off my arse and think about myself (plus BG3 is filling up most of my free time, and I still need to sort out my servers, and model a piece for a shower runner so I can 3d print some to fix my mum's shower)... In terms of the height, are the print files modular enough that you can stack the walls of the grow area higher? I'm thinking for things like basil and chillies they grow up quite a bit? Or would that be a "move to the overflow" scenario? With the smart pump, it appears that it does the watering part, but little else? So I was wondering, if one can get monitors for things like soil pH, you could add something to modify the soil in a given pot to best suit the plant growing in it. You could possibly extend that to adding plant food in as well, either adding it to the water source, or directly, so that it would be absorbed with the watering cycle? Not sure how one would monitor the plant to know if it was going all "Little shop of horrors" on you though... If you were thinking of a simple gravity fed water feed system, you could use a 2l bottle with a TPU bung that holds a flow regulator (could be as simple as just a piece of plastic with pin-holes that will allow water to drip), then runs to a pipe system that goes to the pots? You'd probably need a stop valve in there above the flow regulator, in case you want to completely stop the flow. Or possibly, instead of a bung on the end of the bottle, you could 3d print a nozzle that would screw into the bottle cap screw, and contain the necessary regulator and stop valve? Thoughts?
Bazza... Bazza...Bazza.... if you think I'm going to discourage you from buying a CO2 laser, then you've got the wrong person.... they're awesome!!! I'm going to do a video on the different types in the near future though, so people can see the subtle differences! Ooh, I need to get back to BG3, haven't played for aaaaages and know there's been loads of updates and new mods!!
I already have white PLA loaded in the printer from a different project. With only one working printer it likely will take a while to print everything so I'd love to get started now. I have a friend with a laser cutter so that won't hold me back.
Hey John, well then you're all equipped!!! I'll need to a video about 'the modern workshop' at some point as there really is a shift happening with the most valuable tools - unsurprisingly I'd put a 3D printer and a laser cutter right up there!!
Well this is very interesting! This might be a great project to do with my 14 year old daughter who is getting into cooking! Right offhand I can't think of any tweaks for it, but I'll give it consideration. looking forward to seeing the files when they're ready!
Wonderful project idea!! Cool, I'll give it a week or so to let ideas come in (loads of good ones already) and then I can update the files and share!!
btw off topic, look who is making a guest appearance here: https://youtu.be/vAIyXnI5xpM?si=FuxRSy51qBrDfmR5&t=538
Ah love it!! I've added a link in the description as he didn't seem to cross-link to the original! Great spot!
it looks like your narration seequence has some frame drops up to 1:55 (You wearing the white shirt). 🤔 Rest of the video is fine. Amazing video though.
You're right!! I was really annoyed at this, it seems to be my settings as I was testing using OBS so I could hit record and not have to flip cards back and forth. It worked great but seemed to start frame dropping a bit later - which is ridiculous as it's a PC with a 4090, 192GB of RAM and dedicated cache M2 drives!! 🤓 I think I've cracked it now though, it appears you need to manually set a whole bunch of codec commands to get it smooth, so fingers crossed. It'll be a huge time saving for me as it means I can just hit record and it'll capture, convert and more (I'll give you all a sneaky peek when I do my new Home Office video!!)