Land and water-based environment simulation with a Raspberry Pi controller

paludarium

This is simply beautiful. Poopi and Piter have created a “paludarium” – an enclosed biodome in which environmental conditions are simulated – which contains both land-based and water-based lifeforms.

The paludarium is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and 4 ATmega 168P chips and has the following equipment hooked up:

  • 6 independent sections of halogen lights
  • 27 independently-controlled 1W LEDs for various effects
  • 3 independent 3W RGB LEDs for ambient colour effects
  • 3 independent 3W LEDs for thunder and moon simulation
  • 3 independent 10W LEDs for aquarium lighting
  • 2 independent fans for wind simulation
  • 3 fog generators
  • 2 independent solenoids for rain control
  • Temperature monitoring

It really is a lovely project they’ve designed. I can’t find anything more about either the project or the guys (or girls!) behind it, but here’s a video of it in action from simulated sunrise to simulated sunset.

The music is “Healing” by Kevin MacLeod.

I spotted this over at the Central Florida Aquarium Society.

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