← Prometheus7 · Oracle7The Slow Fire · first plant
Simulated until the sensors arriveEverything below is the vine program from the film, running on a simulated vine every 15 minutes. When the kit is installed, the same program reads the real plant and this notice comes down.

The Vine

A vine in a pot by a window, six sensors and one Raspberry Pi 5 beside it running Oracle7. Every 15 minutes each sensor is read, and each reading is signed and stored. Oracle7 checks the sensor before it believes the reading. The two soil sensors watch the same pot, so a change only one of them makes is that sensor's fault. The vine speaks only from what it measured, and nothing in the program can water it or switch anything.

The film: the kit, how it goes together, and how Oracle7 works with it (2:46).

Now

The last seven days

What it noticed

Talking to the vine

These are the vine program's own replies, computed at the latest reading. It wants a greeting first. It answers from admitted readings, with when they were measured. It declines what it cannot measure.

The kit and its exams

SensorPartMeasuresAdmission exam

About £125 at The Pi Hut: Raspberry Pi 5, two Adafruit STEMMA capacitive soil sensors, an SHT45 for air temperature and humidity, a VEML7700 for light, a DS18B20 probe for the roots, and an optional Camera Module 3 for growth.