I'm making a Tamagotchi for my plant

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The video combines a relatable pain point (killing houseplants) with a high-effort, satisfying DIY tech build, creating a compelling narrative that keeps viewers engaged for the next installment.

Summary

The creator documents the first part of a DIY project to build a digital Tamagotchi-style monitor for their houseplant using an Arduino, a soil sensor, and a small screen. They explain the technical process of creating pixel art and coding the display animations, with plans to finish the project in future videos.

Structure

1Introduction to the plant monitor project
2Explaining the hardware components
3Creating pixel art animations in Procreate
4Writing and testing Arduino code
5Previewing the final animation and future steps

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I’m making a tamagotchi for my plant!! #electronics #hardware #arduino #DIY

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I'm making a Tamagotchi for my plant part 1 but i end up killing them all but i'm determined to keep this guy alive just what to build i have this capacitance is and then temperature i want to hook up who basically a tamagotchi so the first thing i found this and set up to draw some pixel art now i'm not because this was honestly so hard give artists some props guys i spent way too long only for it to look mid anyways i got the photos done sent them to my laptop now it's time to hook up to the screen and run some test code sweet and it works so in order we need to to a byte array pngs are way too big for the little arduino nano so i use this converter and then took that and pasted it into my code and wrote some more in order to get this and now i also grab the sleep cycle animation and then hook that up so that after a little delay it would show the sleep and now all that's left to do is grab the data from the plant make the animations work with that data and then 3d model and print the case follow me <3 if you like this so catch you in the next one!

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I'm making a Tamagotchi for my plant. This is part one. I love plants, but I end up killing them all, but I'm determined to keep this guy alive and I know just what to build to do that. I have this plant sensor that measures capacitance and temperature. Capacitance is basically how wet is the soil and then temperature, you know temperature. I want to hook up this sensor to an Arduino and then also a little screen where you can see a little guy who basically tells you how he's feeling, similar to a Tamagotchi. So the first thing I did was boot up my iPad and open up Procreate. I found this awesome pixel brush pack and set up my canvas to draw some pixel art. Now I'm not going to bore you with this because this was honestly so hard. Give artists some props guys. I spent way too long on this only for it to look mid. Anyways, I got the photos done, sent them to my laptop. Now it's time to hook up the Arduino to the screen and run some test code. Sweet and it works. So in order to use our images, we need to convert them to a byte array. PNGs are way too big for the little Arduino Nano, so I use this converter and then took that and pasted it into my code and wrote some more in order to get this. And now I also grab the sleep cycle animation and then hook that up so that after a little delay, it would show the sleep. And now all that's left to do is grab the data from the plant, make the animations work with that data, and then 3D model and print the case. So catch you in the next one!