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DIY on how to make your plants Twitter
The whole rig requires an Arduino board, and it's not exactly for Mom to do on her own (unless of course your Mom is an electrical engineer, which is entirely possible), because it also will walk you through making your own moisture sensor. Once you've got everything plugged in, the Arduino software will talk to the unit via USB and ethernet, and a terminal script will actually send the Tweets out. Unfortunately, despite a quick search on Twitter, I wasn't able to find any plants actually tweeting, but if you have one, let us know.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lo_fye said 9:07PM on 2-25-2008
If you think this is cool, do yourself a favour and read "The Secret Life of Plants". Despite the fact that it was written in the 70s, it will *blow* your mind.
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brian cometa said 1:50AM on 2-26-2008
this is awesome! maybe now i can keep my plants alive! btw, "The Secret Life of Plants" looks cool.
-brian
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Pick said 3:52AM on 2-26-2008
http://twitter.com/pothos is one owned by Botanicalls (found that out on Slashdot)
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THJ said 12:12PM on 2-26-2008
Nice, now all your friends and fam will be able to track the status of your Pot farm.
It really needs a reverse sensor that twitters when your water is running low for hydroponic systems.
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hypotheek said 5:47PM on 4-07-2008
I think this is a great post. But if you want to use it on a site like http://www.hypohypo.nl or http://www.goaze.nl i do not see the proffit. You would completely need to re-design the whole site to use this. Uhmmm manybe not for now.
Greets
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