How to Build an Intelligent Indoor Garden

How to Build an Intelligent Indoor Garden

Discover how to create a smart indoor garden system in this 28-minute PyCon US talk by Maria Jose Molina-Contreras, PhD. Learn to build a functional, beginner-friendly setup that automatically waters plants based on their needs using sensors, microcontrollers, and CircuitPython. Explore how to add components that give plants a "voice" to communicate deficiencies, develop a Flask web application, configure a Raspberry Pi as a local server, and utilize cloud IoT services for data analysis. Gain insights into CircuitPython's role in prolonging plant life and easing plant care responsibilities while understanding its potential for hardware and connected device programming.