How to get your plant talk

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