“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.”
“The box came and i just connected to power, SD card, a screen and usb keyboard, and .. GO.. connected to my wireless network and everything has been like a breeze since. I fast enabled ssh so remote administration has been enabled, and moved the board and power to my attic, as simple as it gets. future only knows the projects that the board will be implemented into..”
