I got this idea from “super brothers sword and sorcery”, a beautiful iOS game telling a story of sacrifice. This prototype comes from Scythian, the main character in Sword & Sworcery EP.
I made another story of her, change "she" to "he", named him "moisture kun", a king of a deserted kingdom: a long long time ago, moisture was born in a desert with out any rain, river. But a gift was given, he can mesure the moisture of a land or soil, and show it before him. To save his country, he went on the way finding Neverland “Dream Blue”, where there is enough water. Dogfella is his fav pet, guarding him trough deserts, forests, snow mountains and great valley…
So, Let’s see his story…
Step 1: Things prepared & howto
Electronic Grove - Moisture Sensor (it looks like human legs! under side of the main body)
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/grove-moisture-sensor-p-955.html
Xadow - Main Board (really small board! Using Arduino programming it)
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/xadow-main-board-p-1524.html
Xadow - LED (small and beautiful, to show the moisture of soil detected. From 0-5, dry to went)
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/xadow-led-p-1518.html
You may use other Arduino & sensors, as long as they matche the size of your craft.
Crafting The Scythian Before crafting, list paper (left) and moisture kun's module together.
Download The paper prototype on cubeecraft. Find another hardboard, cut it into the shape the shape you download.
After you finish crafting, it'll be like:
Wire Xadow modules are connected using FFC cables that are easy to bend: don't forget the direction (let corner of the boards towards the same side). A little bit hard to add the grove part. Add a grove dock on the breakout board (I2C interface), then use A5 pin connect ADC.
CodeAvailable at
https://github.com/reeedstudio/xadow/tree/master/examples/UserLed<
> I suggest you read http://seeedstudio.com/wiki/Xadow first, for the library part.
Step 2: The story
The led shows moisture in current environment.
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0: dry
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1: average soil
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2: wet
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3: enough water
Keep the batter full and and go on!
xhbang
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