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Scott Clarke

Published February 4, 2018

Robot House Plant

Houseplants hooked up to sensors read by Arduino. Using Node, Python, and bash to monitor the plant, tweet info, and make time lapse videos.

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Robot House Plant

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Hardware components

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

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1

Arduino UNO

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1

Photo resistor

Photo resistor

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2

Temperature Sensor

Temperature Sensor

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2

Jumper wires (generic)

Jumper wires (generic)

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1

Breadboard (generic)

Breadboard (generic)

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1

Raspberry Pi Touch Display

Raspberry Pi Touch Display

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1

USB-A to B Cable

USB-A to B Cable

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Resistor 10k ohm

Resistor 10k ohm

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4

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Story

This project is to create a simple house plant monitoring system which can tweet out the status of the plant it is hooked up to. It uses NodeJS on Raspberry Pi to run an instance of TwitterBot to manage sensor data and tweeting.

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Scott Clarke

Scott Clarke

4 projects • 7 followers

Building random things using Raspberry Pis and Arduinos.

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