What is GardenBot?

GardenBot is a garden monitoring system. This means that you put sensors (temp, humidity, moisture, light) in your garden, and GardenBot will show you charts of the conditions in your garden — so you can see the world the way

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Plants use Twitter to tell you to water them

The gang from Botanicalls used one of Adafruit’s new open source hardware ethernet shields for Arduino (open hardware too) to make some plants talk – and now you can too! That’s right, having your houseplants Twitter you when they need

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Server Room Environmental & Security Monitoring

Monitoring temperature and humidity in a server room environment can be expensive. The Arduino is an ideal platform for this application, and with the addition of a Sprout Board, it’s very flexible and inexpensive. Possible sensors: One additional remote temperature

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The Arduino APRS AX.25 Interface

The Radio Shield is an add-on kit for the Arduino development board that provides AX.25 packet radio send and receive capability, a prototyping area, and an HD44780-compatible LCD interface. Packets are sent and received in AX.25 UI frames. This allows

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Autonomous Vehicle Control with Ardupilot

Autonomous vehicle control is a fancy way of saying a vehicle is self guided, based upon onboard sensor input. GPS, Sonar, IR, and other sensors can help a unmanned vehicle (plane, boat, car, etc.) navigate on it’s own with out

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The Arduino Ethanol Distiller Controller

We have been a fan of brewing your own ethanol fuel for many years. It’s basically a higher purity (less water) version of what is commonly called moonshine or everclear. Gasoline engines need some minor modification to run this, but

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