Smart Plant Care! Build a Qwiic Soil Moisture Sensor System

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Introduction

A plant that is happily watered using a remote monitoring system.

Have you ever wanted your plants to tell you how they're feeling? While we might be a ways away from understanding or communicating with plant consciousness, we can tell if they're thirsty or not, and with the SparkFun Soil Moisture Sensor, you can do just that! This tutorial will show you how to take soil moisture readings and then display those readings on an OLED as a happy, meh, or sad face, depending on how wet or dry the soil is.

The three types of faces displayed on an OLED depending on how watered your plant is.