MathPau shared this project on Thingiverse!

This planter is designed to support the growth of vegetables in a hydrophonic system within your own home. The system irrigates and waters the plants in a vertical structure. The plants, e.g. tomatoes, lettuce, peppers or spring onions, are planted in growing pots and hydrophonic granulate.

The control system consists of an esp8266 microcontroller (Wemos D1 mini) with Internet access. The times for switching the LEDs on and off, their brightness (PWM) and the amount of water to be pumped are stored in a database.

The power supply consists of a 12V power supply unit and a step-down converter to 5V for the microcontroller. The 12V are connected to the motor drivers and mosfets of the LED strips.

The LED strips are controlled by the microcontroller via a mosfed breakout board.

Download files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6934750

Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!