How to get your plant talk: Difference between revisions

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Give your plants a voice! To make your plant tweet when it needs water you need the following:

The Arduino is a microcontroller; a small computer you can program.

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

Step 3 Run the processing software on the computer. The processing software can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/tree/master/PlantProcessing

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 Give your plants a voice!
 To make your plant tweet when it needs water you need the following:
-* The circuit
+* Plant
+* Arduino
+* Computer
+* Some electronic parts for a simple circuit
 * Arduino software
 * Processing software
+* Internet connection
+* Twitter account
+The Arduino is a microcontroller; a small computer you can program.
+Step 1
+Connect your plant via a simple circuit to an Arduino.
+[[File:Arduino-plant.png]]
+Step 2
+Upload these lines of code to the Arduino via the computer
+Step 3
+Run the processing software on the computer. The processing software can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/tree/master/PlantProcessing
-Your plant is connected to an Arduino via a simple circuit. The Arduino is a microcontroller; a small computer you can program.
-The Arduino is connected to a computer with the processing 'tweet' sketch running.
 [https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant github.com/arjan/talkingplant]