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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2-25-2008 @ 9:07PM
lo_fye said...
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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2-26-2008 @ 1:50AM
brian cometa said...
this is awesome! maybe now i can keep my plants alive! btw, "The Secret Life of Plants" looks cool.
-brian
corewerkz
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2-26-2008 @ 3:52AM
Pick said...
http://twitter.com/pothos is one owned by Botanicalls (found that out on Slashdot)
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2-26-2008 @ 12:12PM
THJ said...
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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4-07-2008 @ 5:47PM
hypotheek said...
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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