Brian O’Connor gave this recent presentation at DorkBot SoCal (March 8, 2009) on combining a homemade moisture sensor, an Arduino, and a Chumby to create a system for monitoring the health of his plants.
Video: Arduino + Chumby = Fun! with Brian O’Connor [Thanks, Thomas!]
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If you don’t want to spend half an hour watching the video, he has a web page about the project here:
https://boconnor.is-a-geek.com/pmwiki/index.php?n=Geek.Chumby
Any chance of a link that works?
The link works just fine. It’s just an https connection with a self-signed certificate.