I have made some progress on the green sprinkler system project. I even shot some video recently!!! Here is some testing of the water quality…. WHO PEED IN MY BARREL!! Now for the big update!!! Built a battery from recycled 18650 laptop cells. Hooked it to my pump. Drained my rain barrel!! Then charged the battery back...

My last barrel was the white kind and it did not do well at keeping light out so there was a swamp monster in it when I checked it. Glad I wasn’t using it for anything, that water was gross. I switched over to these blue barrel’s in hopes it would be better. Got a cool endoscope camera from amazon Amazon With this...

So I don’t know why, but I have over the last year or so really gotten into doing things with renewable resources (mainly solar). Well, lets say interested in. I have a couple of solar panels I play with but nothing crazy. So one day I get this crazy idea in my head. I need a rain barrel. But for what!?!?! I had no...