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==Give your plants a voice!== | |||
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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''' <br> | ||
[[ | Connect your plant via a simple circuit to an Arduino. | ||
[[File:Arduino-plant.png|400px|Arduino and plant]] | |||
'''Step 2''' <br> | |||
Upload these lines of code to the Arduino via the computer | |||
[[File:Arduino-plant-code.png|400px|copy this code (available on Github)]] | |||
The Arduino code can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/blob/master/PlantArduino/PlantArduino.ino | |||
'''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] | |||
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