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9. Digital Gardener

Charles Bell1  
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Warsaw, VA, USA
 

One of the most common projects for the home is a simple plant monitoring station. Such projects can have all manner of components, but the most basic is determining if your plants need to be watered. Yes, that means all of those folks who have terrible luck with plants can add a tool to help them earn their green thumbs!

In this chapter, we will create a basic plant monitoring station. It isn’t a full plant monitoring station because it doesn’t include mechanisms to automatically water plants and record temperature, humidity, etc. (but you could add them). Rather, we’re going to read the moisture level ...

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