An Arduino Uno provides the processing power and drives the serial monitor. A joystick and a Hitachi H48C accelerometer are mounted on a breadboard and wired to the Uno.

Connect the Arduino to your computer using the USB cable. Open the Serial Monitor in your IDE to see the values from the sensor – this will also help you to calibrate your plant monitor.

This simple WiFi serial port monitor would have saved us a lot of trouble. We can’t count how many times where being hooked into an Arduino with USB just to get the serial out has nearly been ...

Serial Port Monitor from Eltima The Serial Port Monitor software tool from Eltima Software is, in fact, a professional port sniffer and analyzer system utility good for RS232/RS422/RS485 port ...

Feel like you can’t give your new plants all the attention they deserve? Let Arduino help you.