{"id":4680,"date":"2026-01-28T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:17:08","slug":"project-28-sensors-water-sensor-mk26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/?p=4680","title":{"rendered":"Project #28 \u2013 Sensors \u2013 Water Sensor \u2013 Mk26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4680-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04W.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04W.mp4\">https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04W.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>#DonLucElectronics #DonLuc #Water #FireBeetle2ESP32E #ESP32 #Display #IoT #Project #Fritzing #Programming #Electronics #Microcontrollers #Consultant<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04a.jpg\" alt=\"Water Sensor\" width=\"720\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04a.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04a-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04b.jpg\" alt=\"Water Sensor\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04b.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04c.jpg\" alt=\"Water Sensor\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04c.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DL2601Mk04c-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowtail &#8211; Water Sensor 2.0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The water sensor detects the presence of water using a series of exposed, grounded traces, including the sensor traces. These traces have a weak pull-up resistance of 1 M?. This resistance will raise the value of the sensor trace until a drop of water causes a short circuit between the sensor trace and the grounded trace. The amount of water-induced contact between the grounded and sensor traces can be detected using the digital I\/O pins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DL2601Mk04<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 x DFRobot FireBeetle 2 ESP32-E<br \/>\n1 x Fermion: 3.5\u201d 480&#215;320 TFT LCD Capacitive<br \/>\n1 x GDL Line 10 CM<br \/>\n1 x Crowtail &#8211; Water Sensor 2.0<br \/>\n1 x Crowtail &#8211; LED Green<br \/>\n1 x Gravity: IO Shield for FireBeetle 2<br \/>\n1 x Terminal Block Board for FireBeetle 2 ESP32-E IoT<br \/>\n1 x Lithium Ion Battery &#8211; 1000mAh<br \/>\n1 x Micro USB Cable<\/p>\n<p><strong>DL2601Mk04p<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DL2601Mk04p.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"arduino\" data-enlighter-title=\"\">\r\n\/****** Don Luc Electronics \u00a9 ******\r\nSoftware Version Information\r\nProject #28 \u2013 Sensors \u2013 Water Sensor \u2013 Mk26\r\n28-26\r\nDL2601Mk04p.ino\r\nDL2601Mk04\r\n1 x DFRobot FireBeetle 2 ESP32-E\r\n1 x Fermion: 3.5\u201d 480x320 TFT LCD Capacitive\r\n1 x GDL Line 10 CM\r\n1 x Crowtail - Water Sensor 2.0\r\n1 x Crowtail - LED Green\r\n1 x Gravity: IO Shield for FireBeetle 2\r\n1 x Terminal Block Board for FireBeetle 2 ESP32-E IoT\r\n1 x Lithium Ion Battery - 1000mAh\r\n1 x Micro USB Cable\r\n*\/\r\n\r\n\/\/ Include the Library Code\r\n\/\/ EEPROM Library to Read and Write EEPROM with Unique ID for Unit\r\n#include &quot;EEPROM.h&quot;\r\n\/\/ Wire\r\n#include &lt;Wire.h&gt;\r\n\/\/ Arduino\r\n#include &quot;Arduino.h&quot;\r\n\/\/ DFRobot Display GDL API\r\n#include &lt;DFRobot_GDL.h&gt;\r\n\r\n\/\/ Water Sensor\r\n\/\/ LED Green\r\nint iLEDG = D11;\r\n\/\/ Water\r\nint iWater =  D10;\r\nint iWaterState = 0;\r\nString sW = &quot;&quot;;\r\n\r\n\/\/ Defined ESP32\r\n#define TFT_DC  D2\r\n#define TFT_CS  D6\r\n#define TFT_RST D3\r\n\r\n\/*dc=*\/ \/*cs=*\/ \/*rst=*\/\r\n\/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480\r\nDFRobot_ILI9488_320x480_HW_SPI screen(TFT_DC, TFT_CS, TFT_RST);\r\n\r\n\/\/ Software Version Information\r\n\/\/ EEPROM Unique ID Information\r\n#define EEPROM_SIZE 64\r\nString uid = &quot;&quot;;\r\n\r\n\/\/ Software Version Information\r\nString sver = &quot;28-26&quot;;\r\n\r\nvoid loop() {\r\n  \r\n  \/\/ Water Sensor\r\n  isWater();\r\n\r\n  \/\/ isDisplay Water\r\n  isDisplayWater();\r\n\r\n  \/\/ Delay 1 Second\r\n  delay( 1000 );\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>getDisplay.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"arduino\" data-enlighter-title=\"\">\r\n\/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480\r\n\/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480 - UID\r\nvoid isDisplayUID(){\r\n\r\n  \/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480\r\n  \/\/ Text Display\r\n  \/\/ Text Wrap\r\n  screen.setTextWrap(false);\r\n  \/\/ Rotation\r\n  screen.setRotation(3);\r\n  \/\/ Fill Screen =&gt; black\r\n  screen.fillScreen(0x0000);\r\n  \/\/ Text Color =&gt; white\r\n  screen.setTextColor(0xffff);\r\n  \/\/ Font =&gt; Free Sans Bold 12pt\r\n  screen.setFont(&amp;FreeSansBold12pt7b);\r\n  \/\/ TextSize =&gt; 1.5\r\n  screen.setTextSize(1.5);\r\n  \/\/ Don Luc Electronics\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 30);\r\n  screen.println(&quot;Don Luc Electronics&quot;);\r\n  \/\/ SD\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 60);\r\n  screen.println(&quot;Water Sensor&quot;);\r\n  \/\/ Version\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 90);\r\n  screen.println(&quot;Version&quot;);\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 120);\r\n  screen.println( sver );\r\n  \/\/ EEPROM\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 150);\r\n  screen.println(&quot;EEPROM&quot;);\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 180);\r\n  screen.println( uid );\r\n\r\n}\r\n\/\/ isDisplayWater\r\nvoid isDisplayWater(){\r\n\r\n  \/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480\r\n  \/\/ Text Display\r\n  \/\/ Text Wrap\r\n  screen.setTextWrap(false);\r\n  \/\/ Rotation\r\n  screen.setRotation(3);\r\n  \/\/ Fill Screen =&gt; white\r\n  screen.fillScreen(0xffff);\r\n  \/\/ Text Color =&gt; blue\r\n  screen.setTextColor(0x001F);\r\n  \/\/ Font =&gt; Free Sans Bold 12pt\r\n  screen.setFont(&amp;FreeSansBold12pt7b);\r\n  \/\/ TextSize =&gt; 1.5\r\n  screen.setTextSize(1.5);\r\n  \/\/ Water Sensor\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 30);\r\n  screen.println(&quot;Water Sensor&quot;);\r\n  \/\/ Accelerometer X\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 60);\r\n  screen.println( &quot;Water State&quot; );\r\n  screen.setCursor(0, 90);\r\n  screen.println( sW );\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>getEEPROM.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"arduino\" data-enlighter-title=\"\">\r\n\/\/ isUID EEPROM Unique ID\r\nvoid isUID()\r\n{\r\n  \r\n  \/\/ Is Unit ID\r\n  uid = &quot;&quot;;\r\n  for (int x = 0; x &lt; 7; x++)\r\n  {\r\n    uid = uid + char(EEPROM.read(x));\r\n  }\r\n  \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>getWater.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"arduino\" data-enlighter-title=\"\">\r\n\/\/ Water Sensor\r\n\/\/ is Water\r\nvoid isWater(){\r\n\r\n\/\/ Read the State of the Water Sensor value:\r\n  iWaterState = digitalRead(iWater);\r\n\r\n  \/\/ check if rainning.\r\n  \/\/ if it is, the waterState is LOW\r\n  if (iWaterState == LOW) {     \r\n    \r\n    \/\/ Turn LED HIGH\r\n    digitalWrite(iLEDG, HIGH);\r\n    sW = &quot;HIGH&quot;;\r\n\r\n  } \r\n  else {\r\n    \r\n    \/\/ Turn LED LOW\r\n    digitalWrite(iLEDG, LOW);\r\n    sW = &quot;LOW&quot;;\r\n    \r\n  }\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>setup.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"arduino\" data-enlighter-title=\"\">\r\n\/\/ Setup\r\nvoid setup()\r\n{\r\n \r\n  \/\/ Delay\r\n  delay( 100 );\r\n\r\n   \/\/ EEPROM Size\r\n  EEPROM.begin(EEPROM_SIZE);\r\n  \r\n  \/\/ EEPROM Unique ID\r\n  isUID();\r\n\r\n  \/\/ Delay\r\n  delay( 100 );\r\n \r\n  \/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480\r\n  screen.begin();\r\n\r\n  \/\/ Delay\r\n  delay( 100 );\r\n  \r\n  \/\/ Water Sensor\r\n  \/\/ LED Green \r\n  pinMode(iLEDG, OUTPUT);\r\n  \/\/ Water\r\n  pinMode(iWater, INPUT);\r\n\r\n  \/\/ Delay\r\n  delay( 100 );\r\n\r\n  \/\/ DFRobot Display 320x480 - UID\r\n  \/\/ Don Luc Electronics\r\n  \/\/ Version\r\n  \/\/ EEPROM\r\n  isDisplayUID();\r\n\r\n  \/\/ Delay 5 Second\r\n  delay( 5000 );\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>People can contact us:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/?page_id=1927<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consultant, R&#038;D, Electronics, IoT, Teacher and Instructor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Programming Language<\/li>\n<li>Single-Board Microcontrollers (PIC, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Arm, Silicon Labs, Espressif, Etc&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>IoT<\/li>\n<li>Wireless (Radio Frequency, Bluetooth, WiFi, Etc&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Robotics<\/li>\n<li>Automation<\/li>\n<li>Camera and Video Capture Receiver Stationary, Wheel\/Tank , Underwater and UAV Vehicle<\/li>\n<li>Unmanned Vehicles Terrestrial,  Marine and UAV<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning<\/li>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/li>\n<li>RTOS<\/li>\n<li>Sensors, eHealth Sensors, Biosensor, and Biometric<\/li>\n<li>Research &#038; 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#DonLucElectronics #DonLuc #Water #FireBeetle2ESP32E #ESP32 #Display #IoT #Project #Fritzing #Programming #Electronics #Microcontrollers #Consultant &#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212; Crowtail &#8211; Water Sensor 2.0 The water sensor detects the presence of water using a series of exposed, grounded traces, including the sensor traces. These traces have a weak pull-up resistance of 1 M?. This resistance will &#8230; <a title=\"Project #28 \u2013 Sensors \u2013 Water Sensor \u2013 Mk26\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/?p=4680\" aria-label=\"Read more about Project #28 \u2013 Sensors \u2013 Water Sensor \u2013 Mk26\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,397,50,49,317,38,368,80,59,115,5,287,58,82,10],"tags":[6,92,102,4,320,87,369,19,83,85,24,9,84,27,248,33,34,108,411],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sensors","category-arduino-digitalelectronics","category-arduino","category-consultant","category-dfrobot","category-digitalelectronics","category-elecrow","category-esp32","category-fritzing","category-e-mentor","category-microcontrollers","category-program","category-arduino-programming","category-program-esp32","category-projects","tag-arduino","tag-battery","tag-components","tag-consultant","tag-dfrobot","tag-display","tag-elecrow","tag-electronics","tag-esp32","tag-fritzing","tag-microcontroller","tag-programming","tag-programming-esp32","tag-projects-2","tag-sensors","tag-technology","tag-video-blog","tag-vlog","tag-water-sensor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}