Some of us need a little help keeping our green leafy friends happy. The Arduino Tux (translated) plant care system was built to make things a little easier.
The author had a broken tux toy laying around and wanted to do something fun with it. He cut a hole in the front to mount an LED matrix and connected it all to an Arduino. A couple of metal rods serve as a resistivity sensor in the plant’s dirt.
When you water the plant, tux flashes some hearts and a smiley face. As the moisture drops, tux gets less happy with the end result being a big frown.
These are the same people who brought you the Arduino Photolab.
[via Hack a Day Flickr Pool]
that’s a led matrix, not a lcd matrix. that’s ell-ee-dee, not lcd. led != lcd. repeat after me. ell-ee-dee. ell-ee-dee.
fixed that, thanks ret.
and just where are those wires going?!
poor tux