Yes, it is true! I found some time to play with the arduino and the new ethernet shield I had ordered. And I got it to such a point that temperature, light and moisture are measured and sent to twitter every few minutes. And I am also trying to get it to post to pachube.com, with varying results so far. Currently, the sensors are attached to a box of soil growing fresh strawberry plants behind glass.
If you want to follow the prototype on twitter, follow @ProjectG3H
There are some issues with the temperature readings as they spike to impossible levels every now and then. I will have to get into that later. But, for now the prototype is able to get environment data and connect to the internet to tell the world about them. And it was not a very hard thing to do. Very exciting!
I will do a thorough write-up later to share as much info as possible, but for now I am just so excited that this is actually sort of working, that I had to share!
Below is a little preview of the sensor data that is sent to pachube!
Temperature (in Celcius):
Light (value from the LDR):
Soil moisture level:
Light:
Moisture:
