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haruto
10 Mar 2026

A personal thank you to Gizmo

Hello. This is neither a suggestion nor a bug report.

First of all, it looks like the notification on/off button has been updated to the previous version. It's much easier to use now.
If you're having problems with the notification on/off button, try clearing your cookies in the Shortcuts app. This worked for me as an Android user.

Today, I showed ChipChop and the ESP32-based agricultural sensor to a friend from junior college, and he loved it.
I owe it all to Gizumo, the guy who runs ChipChop. If I had the money, I'd sign up for the paid version as a token of my gratitude.

We're planning to increase guest access starting this month, so we'll let you know if we receive any feedback from guests. Thank you for your continued support.

Gizmo
11 Mar 2026

Hey Haruto San,

温かい言葉を本当にありがとうございます!

Thank you very much for your kind words 😃 It keeps me inspired to keep making ChipChop bigger and better!

I am constantly working on so many new things and I always try to be guided by all users so every comment you may have or ideas for improvements helps a lot and saves me a lot of time.

If it's not top secret post a picture of your project, I would love to see what you are working on!

All the best

G

haruto
11 Mar 2026

Yes, it's great. I'll bring it home from school this weekend and tweak it, so I'll show you pictures then.

I waterproofed it with heat shrink tubing and a glue gun, so it doesn't look very pretty, but it works great.

haruto
15 Mar 2026

Sorry for the wait, I was so busy I completely forgot about the photos.

This device automatically measures and displays temperature, humidity, and soil moisture.

And, if any of the measured values meet a certain condition, it sends a notification to your smartphone only once.

For example, it might send a notification if the soil moisture drops below 10%.

The LCD1602 display automatically switches between temperature (temp) & soil moisture (soil) and humidity (hum) & soil moisture (soil) every 5 seconds, so you don't have to worry about touching the device with wet hands to switch displays.

Since I'm enrolled in an agricultural junior college, I thought I'd take this opportunity to make my own sensor for use in greenhouses.

Actually, when I showed this to school, they told me to create a manual.

Initially, I thought I'd just prepare a handout explaining how to access the guest library, how to read and use the web application's terminology, and how to use the shortcut app, but it seems a more detailed booklet is needed.

Oh no, another precious holiday is gone.

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Gizmo
15 Mar 2026

Hey, that looks great! Thank you for taking time to post the photos.

I was wondering how you've waterproofed it, haven't though about using a food box (Gizmo tip: if you need to quickly waterproof just an esp32 a condom works great :-)

I wander if you could also add a mini water pump (connected with a small capillary hose to a bucket) and automatically water the plant when the moisture drops too low? They can run on 3V so you maybe even be able to power it directly from the esp - something like this: https://amzn.eu/d/071svX1v

I feel your pain having to write a manual, I have the same problem every time I have to write the ChipChop documentation!