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Give your plants a voice!
==Give your plants a voice!== 
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To make your plant tweet when it needs water you need the following:
To make your plant tweet when it needs water you need the following:
* Plant
* Plant
* Arduino
* Arduino; the microcontroller, a small computer you can program.
* Computer
* Computer
* Some electronic parts for a simple circuit
* Some electronic parts for a simple circuit
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* Twitter account
* Twitter account


The Arduino is a microcontroller; a small computer you can program.
'''Step 1''' <br>
Connect your plant via a simple circuit to an Arduino.


Step 1
[[File:Arduino-plant.png|400px|Arduino and plant]]
Connect your plant via a simple circuit to an Arduino.
[[File:Arduino-plant.png|400px]]


Step 2  
'''Step 2''' <br> 
Upload these lines of code to the Arduino via the computer
Upload these lines of code to the Arduino via the computer


Step 3
[[File:Arduino-plant-code.png|400px|copy this code (available on Github)]]
Run the processing software on the computer. The processing software can be found at https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant/tree/master/PlantProcessing


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




[https://github.com/arjan/talkingplant github.com/arjan/talkingplant]
'''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 


[[Category:DIY Manual]]
 
[[Category:Ready to be published]]
'''Step 4''' <br>
[[Category:Print]]
Water your plant in case it tweets ''Hey man I'm thirsty as hell #watermeplease''. 
[[Category:Web]]
 
 
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.

Arduino and plant

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

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
Run the Processing plant tweet sketch on the computer.

copy this code (available on Github)

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