<p>Putting the OpenSprinkler and Raspberry Pi together was easy, getting them to run showed my inexperience when it comes to playing with hardware. The overall install went pretty smoothly and the <a href="http://rayshobby.net/docs/ospi14_manual.pdf">documentation</a> is good and easy to follow so I’m not going to ramble on about it for very long, but just throw up some notes.</p>

<p>I normally don’t play much with hardware, mainly because there isn’t/wasn’t much I want to do that tends to require hardware that’s not a regular PC or maybe a phone or tablet. This one is different, because no self-respecting geek would want the usual rotary control “programmable” timer to run their sprinkler system, would they?</p>