Arduino controlled dosing pumps

[jahmic]

Definitely not my handy work...stumbled across this via another forum and figured it was worth sharing in case anyone was interested.

http://fishtankprojects.com/diy-aquarium-projects/arduino-controlled-dosing-pumps.html

 

[MuralReef]

Looks like a fun project.

 

[Walkpraz]

Thats great! Arduino's are so very useful, it would be interesting to replace the Arduino with a Raspberry Pi. In doing that you could also control the dosing function from any wifi enabled device.

 

[09bumblebee]

So what controls this?

 

[High Plains Reefer]

the audrio controler I may be wrong here but I think its an open source controler thats made out of a heathkit type eletronic device

 

[TexSun]

Yeah, Ive been wanting to do a project similar to this, very cool!

 

[jahmic]

The Arduino is the controller. Pretty sure the Reef Angel is built on the same platform.

 

[09bumblebee]

The Arduino is the controller. Pretty sure the Reef Angel is built on the same platform.

Oh right right.

 

[algaeman]

If I had free time to do electronics projects and reefing, I would go the Raspberry Pi route. If you hook a Pi up to a PWM controller chip, you could control pumps, fans and lights from a fully functional general purpose computer. Then you could set up a web server for control, as WalkPrazz said. This would leave you with a bunch of gpio pins available to hook up instrumentation. Arduino is great to get one thing done. RPi can be a real system controller.