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How To Make Your Plants Twitter

20 points by pius 19y ago

TheTarquin 19y ago
Okay, THAT is an awesome hack. Taking a simple, straightforward system and, with a little bit of hardware geekery, conscripting it into service as a botanical monitering/reminder service. I am much impressed. If I had plants, I'd be all over this.
- kirubakaran 19y ago
  Good reason to get plants?
  - comatose_kid 19y ago
    There's that oxygen thing too.
    - TheTarquin 19y ago
      Psh, oxygen is overrated . . . :-P
  - TheTarquin 19y ago
    It well might be. Maybe my testing bench could use a little color . . .
iamwil 19y ago
I'd like to see most everything that you own be able to do this. Then, there'd be an aggregator of your stuff that you can get a 10,000 level overview of. How old is most of my stuff? How fashionable is most of my stuff? How much of my stuff do I really use? How much is my stuff worth? Which of my stuff have I been neglecting? That way, we can learn to live with less stuff. (or if that's not your goal, live with stuff that other people envy) EDIT: This reminded me of: http://www.360voice.com/ http://www.360voice.com/ It's something to let your xbox360 blog about you. Its entries are like: "Cormyre seemed really excited to play yesterday. Our current gamerscore is 32,936 . That is a boost of 60 points over last time! He rocked out to Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4, LEGO Star Wars II, Aegis Wing, Tomb Raider: Anniv. gaining 1 achievement, and I think there was some random Live Marketplace browsing, but I wasn't paying attention." "Cormyre must have heard my calling... I was practically startled when his greasy finger pounded my power button. I mean come on... be a little gentle... I am fragile. Just some helpful advice for someone with a 32,876 gamerscore. That is a profit of 650 points over last time! He rallied Guitar Hero III, Tomb Raider: Anniv. adding an amazing 20 achievements, and then he had to stop because we both couldn't take it anymore... we were spent."
jgrahamc 19y ago
This project uses two really nice bits of kit: 1. Arduino (which is a cheap, open source design, microcontroller board) 2. XPort (a system-on-a-chip ethernet connector which contains a web server and a serial interface inside an ethernet socket).
walter_b_marvin 19y ago
lol

20 points by pius 19y ago

Okay, THAT is an awesome hack. Taking a simple, straightforward system and, with a little bit of hardware geekery, conscripting it into service as a botanical monitering/reminder service. I am much impressed. If I had plants, I'd be all over this.

kirubakaran 19y ago
Good reason to get plants?
- comatose_kid 19y ago
  There's that oxygen thing too.
  - TheTarquin 19y ago
    Psh, oxygen is overrated . . . :-P
- TheTarquin 19y ago
  It well might be. Maybe my testing bench could use a little color . . .

iamwil 19y ago

I'd like to see most everything that you own be able to do this. Then, there'd be an aggregator of your stuff that you can get a 10,000 level overview of. How old is most of my stuff? How fashionable is most of my stuff? How much of my stuff do I really use? How much is my stuff worth? Which of my stuff have I been neglecting? That way, we can learn to live with less stuff. (or if that's not your goal, live with stuff that other people envy) EDIT: This reminded me of: http://www.360voice.com/ http://www.360voice.com/ It's something to let your xbox360 blog about you. Its entries are like: "Cormyre seemed really excited to play yesterday. Our current gamerscore is 32,936 . That is a boost of 60 points over last time! He rocked out to Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4, LEGO Star Wars II, Aegis Wing, Tomb Raider: Anniv. gaining 1 achievement, and I think there was some random Live Marketplace browsing, but I wasn't paying attention." "Cormyre must have heard my calling... I was practically startled when his greasy finger pounded my power button. I mean come on... be a little gentle... I am fragile. Just some helpful advice for someone with a 32,876 gamerscore. That is a profit of 650 points over last time! He rallied Guitar Hero III, Tomb Raider: Anniv. adding an amazing 20 achievements, and then he had to stop because we both couldn't take it anymore... we were spent."

jgrahamc 19y ago

This project uses two really nice bits of kit: 1. Arduino (which is a cheap, open source design, microcontroller board) 2. XPort (a system-on-a-chip ethernet connector which contains a web server and a serial interface inside an ethernet socket).

walter_b_marvin 19y ago

lol