I am tired of spending my weekends watching serials, movies and playing games and I want a break from work.<p>I was thinking that a two-day electronics project would be an ideal way to spend the weekend. I have built some robots before (http://www.beamindia.net) and have some fundamental electronics knowledge, soldering skills etc. A robotics project more complicated than the last robot I built (was a long time ago) would be time consuming and I don't want to do a smaller robot either.<p>So I need something simple enough to be done in 2 days and not a robot. I don't to buy any DIY kits either. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I would like to have something that monitors my plants and alerts me if they need water (in step 2, maybe even water them by itself).<p>I don't know enough about what plants need and how to measure their situation, though. But there is a "twittering plants" project already.<p>Apparently it uses this: <a href="http://www.botanicalls.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.botanicalls.com/</a>
Solar powered light-seeking desktop miniature robot?<p><pre><code> http://www.solarbotics.net/library.html
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We're planning to build one here at work soon as a project to teach new programmers about the basics of hardware.