[thedaniel]

In the water distribution section the author mentions the other gardening software doesn't mention how they distribute water. There's a longer history of irrigation than there is of embedded software development, so maybe he should have talked to someone that actually does agriculture or googled 'irrigation system parts' and bought one of the thousands of existing drippers for a buck.

Of course the later heading "the gardening wasn't supposed to be hard" seems to imply that he assumes non-coding skills are easy to figure out or obvious, which is a sadly too-common trend in the tech world.

[mtlynch]

I didn't mean to imply that gardening in general is easy, just that gardening basic houseplants seems like it's not supposed to be very hard.

We did look for gardening supplies that would spread the water out, but everything we found was designed for large fields or at least small gardens, not single planters. I'm seeing the same thing now when I Google "irrigation system parts." Looking at drippers, I'm not seeing how it would solve the problem. Doesn't it just drip onto a single spot?

[thedaniel]

Sorry to come across so harsh, I was in a poor mood yesterday :) There are a bunch that friction fit onto tubing that have e.g. 10 holes and spray out to the sides

[bennyp101]

I think you might be taking this a tad too seriously ;)