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  1. @derek sure, it’s a small 6V peristaltic pump that moves water from a 100L rainwater barrel from our house up to a second barrel which is in our higher level garden (up 2.5m) as I’m too lazy to carry the water up.

    Tech wise it’s now a waveshare #esp32s2 pico which controls an #adafruit boost 1000c to control the pump, enclosed in a cheap wooden bird box. It’s powered by a #solarpanel and charges 3 supercapacitors in series. Code is in #circuitpython and takes advantage of deepsleep

  2. Water Pump Update: sadly slow progress rebuilding. I’ve found that #RaspberryPiPico just doesn’t have a good enough deep sleep state to survive the night on the supercaps so I’ve switched to an #esp32s2. But then the ESP32 board I got turns out the pin out isn’t correct so spent ages trying to work out why the adc didn’t work.
    Currently testing how this new board functions attached to the #solarpanel

    It’s a little frustrating as it’s holding up all my other projects!