[Dmritard96] built this automated watering system to keep his garden growing while he’s out-of-town. It uses rain barrels, which capture and store rainwater, as a source. These barrels provide ...

[Jeff Rodriguez] has been busy testing a feasible DIY method for rifling a barrel and has found some success using salt water, a power supply, wire, and 3D printed parts to create the grooves of ...

Some fancier models even come with filtration systems to keep debris and insects ... And they're not hard to make; you could DIY your own rain barrel with some basic materials and save yourself ...

They can be as simple as a hanging five-gallon bucket with a spigot or as complicated as her DIY rain barrel system with a sensor connected to a drip hose that automatically watered her garden in ...