{"id":1423,"date":"2015-02-27T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:31:26","slug":"let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2015\/02\/27\/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Your Plants Tweet Using Spark and ThingSpeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head over to\u00a0<a title=\"Spark Core plant monitor with ThingSpeak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Spark-Core-plant-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instructables<\/a>\u00a0to learn how to make your plants Tweet using <a title=\"Spark IoT\" href=\"http:\/\/spark.io\" target=\"_blank\">Spark Wi-Fi<\/a> and <a title=\"ThingSpeak IoT Web Services\" href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\" target=\"_blank\">ThingSpeak<\/a>. <a title=\"Instructables member\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/member\/gregoryfenton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Fenton<\/a> created a project that monitors his plant&#8217;s soil moisture and then notifies him via Twitter when it is time to water it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Spark-Core-plant-monitor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1424\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2015\/02\/Spark-ThingSpeak-Plant-Monitor.jpg\" alt=\"Spark ThingSpeak Plant Monitor\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg built the project out of necessity to help his plants suffering from\u00a0&#8220;localized drought&#8221;. Let&#8217;s hope his plants get proper watering and that other ThingSpeak users can quickly and easily build this project. Thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n<p>[via <a title=\"Spark Core plant monitor with ThingSpeak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Spark-Core-plant-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instructables<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2015\/02\/Spark-ThingSpeak-Plant-Monitor.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Head over to\u00a0Instructables\u00a0to learn how to make your plants Tweet using Spark Wi-Fi and ThingSpeak. Gregory Fenton created a project that monitors his plant&#8217;s soil moisture and then notifies&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2015\/02\/27\/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[172,60,23,203,8,200,42,31,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}