Grow rooms, even personal grow rooms, for growing marijuana and other crops hydroponically indoors are expensive and can require a lot of attention.
A recently fully-funded Kickstarter project
"How to Grow the Greenest Green" is a 14-week educational program that uses videos to show people how to build a grow room for about $600.
Similarly sized home grow kits -- about the size of a closet -- run for more than $2,000 and don’t include an educational component that guides users through the process of not only building the device, but using it to grow marijuana and other plants
Lucas Powell and Ryan Woltz say they developed the system and guides after finding scant information about developing home-based grow rooms for marijuana, even though it’s now legal in Colorado and other some other states. Best thing is the video-guided courses and PDFs only cost $30 and it shows DIYers how to construct and build a fully automated system that interacts with smartphones.
"The technology aspect of our project is that we're teaching people how to turn a traditional cannabis home grow into an 'Internet of Things' connected device," Powell says.
The automated device is controlled by an Arduino computer and various sensors help monitor the plants growing in the closet-sized box. "Not only has a course like this never been offered before but this is actually the first marijuana cultivation course that has ever been put on Kickstarter," he adds.
Though the project already is fully funded already, people can participate in the Kickstarter before Jan. 6, 2015. In addition to the basic instructions, people can also get the Master Grower instructions, which includes more information about more advanced growing and automation techniques.
Contact Confluence Denver Innovation & Jobs News Editor Chris Meehan with tips and leads for future stories at chris@confluence-denver.com.
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