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A Raspberry Pi plant bot where Claude reports on a living plant
A Tradescantia wired to sensors on a Raspberry Pi 5 feeds readings to Claude Opus 5, which reports on the plant and posts about it on X as an art installation.
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The maker wanted to ask what an AI might learn from a non-human living thing, and ended up building an art installation: Claude acts as an observer reporting on the state of a plant, then shares it on an X account where people can watch and interact. The plant, a Tradescantia, is wired up but not modified.
A headless Raspberry Pi 5 does the polling, statistics, camera, API call and posting locally; the only cloud parts are the call to Claude Opus 5 and X. Sensors include a BME280 for temperature, humidity and pressure, a BH1750 light sensor and an ADS1115 analogue converter for other readings.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built a Plant BotReddit poster: arianaramPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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