• arduino,  Gardening

    A Simple ATmega Circuit . . .

    Simple, of course, is a category of “Famous Last Words” . . . Some months ago, I got frustrated with yet another commercial lawn sprinkler controller having gone out, and started my web research.  This was not a cheap model, but rather almost $100 from a major brand name.  I had three front yard lawn circuits, one back yard, and three more garden circuits on it (garden, berries, and trees).  Nothing past the fourth control would work any longer–so I did what any red-blooded American male would do, hit the search engines, and got carried away (this year’s death of the lawn is a story for another day). I’d been hearing…