Quarantine Project: Garden Tower

[ABearden]

Craziness distracted me a bit. He's my indoor garden. First picture is from this spring when the garden starts were under the grow light and the greens (spinach, kale, lettuce) were doing well in the NFT. Second picture is now. The greens got cleared out due to a spider mite infestation and left because summer greens are cheap, but I'm about to replant the NFT. Also added two 5 gallon DWC buckets (rosemary, basil, and New Mexico chilies) and a 30 gallon DWC for new tomatoes. Typically the NFT is lit with 3x 50W fluorescent shop lights and the DWC is lit with a 1kW equivalent LED panel. A 100 gallon fish tank bubbler aerates everything.

Other technical projects since I have a bit of extra time on my hands:
* Getting the CNC router up and running again.
* Getting the 3D printer setup and starting to dig into the resin printer (after almost 3 years...).
* Started up with SDR again and got weather satellite imagery from NOAA. Attached an image from a NOAA 18 pass that shows the smoke from last week when it was mercifully blowing out over the Pacific. Next up will probably be GOES for some full-disc deliciousness if I can build an effective 1.7GHz yagi antenna that will reach geosynchronous orbit.
* Modifying a DSLR gimbal into handheld setup for the wife's cellphone.
* Started learning Fusion 360 to supplement Blender and the other modelling solutions I have. Pretty happy with the CAM functionality, but sticking to Cura for 3D print CAM.

Also all sorts of home projects including fixing switches, adding cat6, and building storage that my house so desperately lacks.