“Very happy with my upgrade to the Pi3, nice performance boost over its predecessor, and a nice bonus to have wifi and bluetooth built in. Needs a bit more juice compared to the pi2 - so if unsure also buy the recommended power supply.”
“I'm amazed! - My grandmother as a well around 1/2 mile from home - the water is used toghether with the "regular water"(from the main grid) but it's much better than the "network" water either in flavour as it is healthier! - The same water is used around this time of the year to water down the earth too so that when I visit her I can eat all the good things that she "makes" the land to grow!
........ The well having many years as well as the pump there's a tank to store the water but during the summer there's the need for more water to water down the land... during winter - lesse of course - but having to dislocate from the house to where the well is once ever two days sometimes snowing...............Well the well situation as I thought of solving was to remotely control the pump......since I have the time (unemployed :\ ) I spent a couple of hours projecting a small trasmitter and the respective antenna and the receiver would be a simple FM radio wich I would (un)tune for my purpose...... but then I thought..
.."Why make a new telecoms network if I already have telecomunication signals all over the place why wouldn't I use them"... - CellPhones - All I have to do is get a cellphone and since the operators (and the cellphone audio codec) only want to "subtrasmit in a "regular call" is audio... why not use an already very (very XD it's not that new XD) technology to control the pump - DTMF - but since I wasn't all that in the mood for programing an MCU and also wasn't in the mood for placing an entire computer in the middle of nowere... I remembered RaspeberryPi wich I NEVER HAD ONE IN MY HANDS NOR READ MUH ABOUT BEFORE - only knew of it's existence but didn't even knew how it worked (I thought it would be an MCU with some extras) - and (so I thought) it would take me around 10 minutes of programming and "that's it". - I was wrong (you'll see ;)
at the time I'm writing this the only thing that's done is "press 1 to start the pump, 0 for stopping it" - and of course a timer in case my grandma forgets to shut it off (yes I'll put a sensor in the tank to shut it down automatically)... AND yes I was wrong - I'm gonna spend many many many 10 minutes doing all sorts of stuff beause the RaspberryPi opened up a whole new range of ideias (many many many ideas - due to the "unexpected power" of the RaspeberryPi.........
not only the level of the tank but also monitoring the (well) water level around the year registered in a simple text database that I'll later pass to anyking of worksheet...controling the pump trhough the internet and even get text messages whenever the pump "needs to comunicate".... SO... I thought that RaspberryPi would save me some time...instead I got all "geared up" due to it's potential and I'm completly into this project because I had no ideia that when I bought it with the objective of conecting the audio from a cell phone directly to an "input"and analise the frequencie that comes from the audio codec I had no idea that I was instead use an 4G Pen with voice capabilities and ...... dream about that conected to the RaspberryPi and connect a lot more.... xD
the ideia was to save me some time ... instead my mind blew away with the potential of this "electronic board" with a little more than a credit card size........
I honestly now can say the when I bought RaspberryPi for doing ony the job of turning on and off a well pump wirelessly that I was Using an huge canon to kill a small fly! XD”
“I've had a Pi model A for a few years now and always found it a but short on USB ports, IO pins and processor power, the Pi 3 addresses every one of these shortcomings nicely.”
