Botanicalls – plants use Twitter to tell you when they need watering!

Posted on September 28, 2009 by | 2 Comments

This is awesome – Botanicalls. See one of the developer’s amazing Ignite talk:

This entry was posted in Plants, Technology. Bookmark the permalink.

2 responses to “Botanicalls – plants use Twitter to tell you when they need watering!”

  1. Robert S.'s avatar Robert S. | September 29, 2009 at 7:20 am |

    Yeesh, it’s $100 a pop http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKBT1&Show=ExtInfo and it requires both power adapter wire and ethernet cable… Switch it to PoE at least to cut the power cable. Or just perhaps, switch to a much lower power uC, only power up once a minute, and use, say Zigbee to communicate. IIRC, I’ve seen miniature boards with an tcp stack, PoE and analog sensor inputs for ~$15 per in bulk. I’ll try and find the source and post it later.

  2. Sojournposse's avatar Sojournposse | October 3, 2009 at 8:51 am |

    I love it. Can it be more tongue in cheek.