| At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, Lincoln University’s digital garden, which changed the way it looked depending on what people tweeted, sent messages back to people interacting with it and did all kinds of interesting things with twenty servo motors and a lot of hinges, won a gold medal.
See if you can guess what was powering it. We were sent some BBC news coverage, which, sadly, doesn’t actually mention the Pi behind the scenes (although it is beyond delightful for us to see Ringo Starr looking interestedly at it) – but you can read more about the Pi’s involvement, and the philosophy behind the garden, over at the Times Educational Supplement. It’s a nice reminder, though, that a single Raspberry Pi can be used to drive enormous projects like this garden as well as little things like the pile of toy cars and robots that are currently piled up on the desk I’m sitting at now. Well done, Lincoln techno-botanists. We loved the project, and we wish we’d been able to see it in person! |
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Lincoln University’s digital garden, and its gold medal
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