What to do once you have a sprinkler system installed on your property: buy a sprinkler control system or make your own? The latter, obviously. [danaman] was determined to hack together a cheap ...

The lower pressure also eliminates the need to glue the components for each bed, so that the design can be more easily reconfigured than most budget-friendly DIY home garden watering systems.

The clearly obvious solution was to make an automated watering system! The most interesting part of this build is the valve. Anyone could have bought an off-the-shelf solenoid valve, not ...