Watering plants with a motor

This sample app is a combination of the one introduced in the Basic Kit Web Bluetooth IoT and Motorleaf. Using Bluetooth, you can control the electric pump to turn on and off, water plants, and send sensor information to a smartphone or PC. For details, please refer to Web Bluetooth IoT in Basic Kit.

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What to prepare

  • STM32 MCU, BLE Sugar, 4-Sensors, CR2032, and USB
  • A Windows1, Mac2, or Linux3 PC (for development)
  • Android4, iPhone5, iPad5 smartphone or tablet
  • Google Chrome (Version 70.0.3526.0 or later)
  • Arduino IDE, STM32CubeProgrammer software V2.4.0

Sample app source code

Please download both in advance.

Leafony Configuration

In this sample, you can try the following leaf configurations.

Type Name Q’ty
AZ62 Connector Cover 1
AI01 4-Sensors 1
AI Motor 1
AP01 AVR MCU 1
AC02 BLE Sugar 1
AZ01 USB 1
AV01 CR2032 1
- CR2032 coin cell battery 1
- M2*18mm screw 2

Assembly

Assemble the leaves as shown in the figure below.

Pin assignment

Refer to the figure below for the pin assignment of each leaf.

Execution result

  1. Write Motor_BLE_demo.ino in Arduino IDE.
  2. Open the downloaded index.html of Web Bluetooth App with Google Chrome.
    For details on how to use the web app, refer to the Basic Kit Getting Started Guide.

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  1. Windows 10 version 1703 or later ↩︎

  2. OS X Yosemite or later ↩︎

  3. Kernel 3.19+ and BlueZ 5.41+ installed. ↩︎

  4. Android 6.0 Marshmallow or later ↩︎

  5. For iPhone or iPad, WebBLE(paid) is required because Web Bluetooth is not implemented in Chrome for iPhone and iPad. ↩︎

Last modified 15.03.2021