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What’s this then?A breathing, coughing, air-quality-sensing, Google-Sheets-logging, real-live-plant-having planter!
Using an air-quality sensor and a hidden Raspberry Pi Zero W, this little planter personifies a plant to sense indoor air quality.
Code and miscellaneous resources (laser cutter PDF and Fritzing model) are in the project’s Github repository.
Bill of MaterialsRaspberry Pi Zero W (other models should be fine, with small changes to the code and potentially wiring. The wifi is used to log to Google Sheets, but is otherwise optional.) An SGP30 air-quality sensor (we used the breakout board from Adafruit, but any similar one should work.) A 2.5W mono speaker amp and small speaker (we used this amp and this speaker) A Pimoroni Blinkt! LED strip (available here; you could also use a strip of 8 NeoPixels, with some small changes to the code) A power adapter for the Pi (perhaps this one)ProcessWe’re going to document the high-level process in this Instructable.
Configure and test the SGP30 sensor Configure and test the speakers Configure and test the lights Google Sheets configuration General software configuration Assemble the caseLet’s begin!”

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