Nicesprinkler

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OsProject

OsProject
id  nicesprinkler
state  active
owner  WolfgangFahl
title  nicesprinkler
url  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/nicesprinkler
version  0.0.3
description  Computer Controlled 2 Stepper motor 3D lawn sprinkler system
date  2026-08-15
since  2024-08-13
until  


Aiming water is a control problem

A stepper motor knows exactly where it was told to go. Water pressure has other ideas — the hose bends, the head shifts under the jet, and the model in the software drifts away from the machine in the garden. nicesprinkler closes that gap by watching itself: a camera on the device records every frame together with the angles that were commanded, so the drift can be measured instead of guessed.

Watch it run

What it does

  • simulates the throw over a 3D model of the garden before a drop falls
  • aims the head from the browser
  • streams the device camera beside the controls and records labelled frames
  • measures its own flow rate with a bucket and a stop watch

Release

0.0.3 of 2026-08-15 brought the camera into the remote view, the flow calibration page and the labelled recording. See the release notes.

See also