I was wondering if someone coud help me. I am doing a uni project and its my first time using any of the arduino software. We have been assigned to create a dog water bowl that automatically fills up when the water is drunk. For this we have an arduino uno board, a solenoid, a load cell and moisture sensors in the water tank to alert the owner when that needs to be filled up, but I don't have any idea where to start with the coding.
Any hlep would be greatly appreciated,
From a very stressed university student
The trick with this kind of thing is to start by thinking about the project as a whole so you know where you're aiming for - a top down approach.
Then go bottom up - you know you're going to use a load cell, a moisture sensor and a solenoid. Do a separate little project for each of them and just exercise the hardware.
You can google the circuit you'll need for the solenoid. A simple program for the Arduino involving pinMode and digitalWrite should allow you to control it. Rinse and repeat for the other components and you will have some code snippets you can combine in your full solution.
