{"id":605,"date":"2008-02-25T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T06:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:23:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T06:23:18","slug":"now-your-plants-can-call-or-twitter-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/now-your-plants-can-call-or-twitter-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Your Plants Can Call or Twitter You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Botanicalls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalls.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"bcalls_twitter_setup_cellphone_2medium\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bcalls_twitter_setup_cellphone_2medium.jpg\" alt=\"image\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botanicalls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalls.com\/\">Botanicalls<\/a> is a project by students at the <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/\">NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program<\/a>. It&#8217;s &#8220;a system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their habits and characteristics.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalls.com\/twitter\/\">Botanicalls Twitter DIY<\/a> is a version for Twitter so your plants can send Twitter updates when they need water, or send you their thanks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the site, the system provides five different status updates, based on the plant&#8217;s current conditions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. When the moisture level of the plant&#8217;s soil drops below the satisfactory threshold, it will send a status update that the plant needs to be watered.<br \/>\n2. If the soil moisture drops below a critical level the plant will twitter that it is urgently in need of watering.<br \/>\n3. Any rapid rise in soil moisture will be detected as a watering event. The plant will then determine if the soil moisture has risen to the desired level for a proper watering. If it has, then it will twitter its thanks.<br \/>\n4. If a watering event occurs, but the soil moisture has not reached the desired level, the plant will twitter to report that it was watered, but not sufficiently.<br \/>\n5. Likewise, if a watering event occurs, but the plant was not in need of water yet, the plant will twitter to complain that it is being over watered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check <a title=\"the site for detailed steps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalls.com\/twitter\/\">the site for detailed steps<\/a> on what hardware and software you&#8217;ll need to build your own. If you&#8217;ve set this up, definitely let me know in the comments. I love this!  Time for a trip to Radio Shack and Ace Hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botanicalls is a project by students at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. It&#8217;s &#8220;a system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,178,177,135],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-digitallife","tag-hardware","tag-plants","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}