The CLUE microcontroller is a powerful little board. In this project, we’ve used it to power a NeoPixel strip installed in a frame around a vertical moss garden.
The CLUE does a great job of lighting the plants artfully, and we’ve taken it a step further by incorporating data from the CLUE’s onboard weather sensors. This vertical garden functions as a barometer or thermometer, showing colors based on the current and recent air pressure or temperature. Five different light zones show you at a glance whether the air pressure is rising or falling, turning the art piece into a functional barometer.
This lovely vertical moss garden predicts the weather. It’s art with a superpower! That’s pretty neat.
The CLUE screen displays the current barometric pressure as well as the last two readings, so you can see whether the pressure is rising or falling. Rising pressure will display a hot air balloon image on the screen, and sinking pressure will display a submarine.
It also shows a counter, counting up to the next reading.
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