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Kickstarter of the Week: Plant-In City Offers an Internet of Vegetation | Wired Design Plants are the best. They’re pretty, they clean the air, they’re good listeners, and they don’t eat your furniture. On the downside, they need regular care, and they’re lousy communicators. Designers Huy Bui, Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena, and Jon Schramm have created a system to make your relationship with them easier. Plant-In City is a modular series of frames that can be combined to create a customized plant habitat. Click to Open Overlay Gallery “It started from a simple idea: Can we water our plants remotely with our iPhones while traveling or off site?” But as the team dove deeper into the design, their vision grew. Even as budding horticulturalists, de Llarena admits there was a period of learning as they developed the project. They’ve fostered better communication by beaming the levels of light, humidity, moisture and temperature to the Internet, which will be accessible via Plant-In’s website or through mobile apps. The modular box system is key to creating a pleasing space.
Fantastico!, Art References Tumblr Accounts! How to make a tablet pc from an old laptop Check out my other projects:Xbox Hackintosh casemod AndDIY Spy phone In this project i used an old Fujitsu Siemens life book S series laptop. It has got a 1 Ghz processor and 256 Mb ram, (not sure about the graphic card but i know its between 8-32 Mb). In this instructable i will show how to do tablet pc the easy way(and the cheapest) , and how to do it hard way (including "touch" screen etc). In this project you will need: 1.Old laptop 2. And if you are doing the hard way you will also need: 6.Lots of straight plastic 7.Something to melt down the plastic 8. The skils you will need to make this are: 1. And of course for the hard way you will also need: 5.Problem solving skills 6.Serious knowledge how things work 7.Way to know how to make "special" tools 8. And sorry for my English its not my main language but i will try to make it readable :D
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