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This Plant Sends You Messages When it Needs Water

by Terrence O'Brien on February 26, 2008 at 03:08 PM

DIY Twittering Plant Lets You Know When to Water it
Those of us with not blessed with a green thumb (some of us at Switched could kill a cactus) wish plants would tell you us they needed and when. A company called Botanicalls has cooked up an admittedly complicated DIY (Do It Yourself) project that lets your plants to send messages via the micro-blogging service Twitter to let you know when it needs to be watered. It even thanks you for feeding it.

The project uses a tiny networked computer, a circuit you must wire up yourself, and simple moisture probes made of nails to detect water levels and trigger Twitter messages when the plant needs water, when moisture levels are critically low, to thank you for watering it, to let you know that you've watered it, but not enough, or that you've over-saturated the soil.

The concept is pretty cool, but not for the faint of heart. Check it out here if you want to give the project a shot.

From Digg and Botanicalls

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Tags: diy, do it yourself, DoItYourself, plants, project, twitter

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