A remote-controlled simsim sowing machine.

Abstract

Despite the increasing demand in agricultural products in the country thus Uganda less has been done to improve there level of production especially simsim. Therefore, A Remote Controlled Simsim Sowing Machine is the subject system. This system sows simsim seeds by projecting them at evenly spaced intervals to create uniform distribution. This system improves the technology of the existing system simsim sowing method in the attempt to reduce or completely cut down the high labour expenses spent on achieving fast simsim seed sowing. In gathering information, consultations and document reviews concerning the existing seed sowing systems were carried out. It was from the analysis of this gathered information that the developing of the Automatic Robotic Seed Sower. I programmed this system using Arduino IDE software. The components of the system were designed prior to system testing using a bread board after which they were soldered on a copper board. The functionality of the system was under the control of the code that was written on the microcontroller. The system was finally subjected to system testing to validate and verify its working by me and some of my classmates before presenting to the Busitema University Computer engineering panel.