How to get your plant talk: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:57, 16 December 2015

Give your plants a voice!

To make your plant tweet when it needs water you need the following:

Plant
Arduino; the microcontroller, a small computer you can program.
Computer
Some electronic parts for a simple circuit
Arduino software
Processing software
Internet connection
Twitter account

Step 1
Connect your plant via a simple circuit to an Arduino.

Step 2
Upload these lines of code to the Arduino via the computer

The Arduino code can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/blob/master/PlantArduino/PlantArduino.ino

Step 3
Run the Processing plant tweet sketch on the computer.

The Processing sketch can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/tree/master/PlantProcessing

Step 4
Water your plant in case it tweets Hey man I'm thirsty as hell #watermeplease.

The Arduino and Processing github.com/arjan/talkingplant

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-Give your plants a voice!
+==Give your plants a voice!==
+<br> <br> <br>
 To make your plant tweet when it needs water you need the following:
-* The circuit
+* Plant
+* Arduino; the microcontroller, a small computer you can program.
+* Computer
+* Some electronic parts for a simple circuit
 * Arduino software
 * Processing software
+* Internet connection
+* Twitter account
-Your plant is connected to an Arduino via a simple circuit. The Arduino is a microcontroller; a small computer you can program.
+'''Step 1''' <br>
-The Arduino is connected to a computer with the processing 'tweet' sketch running.
+Connect your plant via a simple circuit to an Arduino.
-[https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant github.com/arjan/talkingplant]
+[[File:Arduino-plant.png|400px|Arduino and plant]]
+'''Step 2''' <br>
+Upload these lines of code to the Arduino via the computer
-[[Category:DIY Manual]]
+[[File:Arduino-plant-code.png|400px|copy this code (available on Github)]]
-[[Category:Ready to be published]]
-[[Category:Print]]
+The Arduino code can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/blob/master/PlantArduino/PlantArduino.ino
-[[Category:Web]]
+'''Step 3''' <br>
+Run the Processing plant tweet sketch on the computer.
+[[File:Processing.png|400px|copy this code (available on Github)]]
+The Processing sketch can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/tree/master/PlantProcessing
+'''Step 4''' <br>
+Water your plant in case it tweets ''Hey man I'm thirsty as hell #watermeplease''.
+The Arduino and Processing [https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant github.com/arjan/talkingplant]