Did you ever feel the need to be in charge of your environment? We did . A detailed story of our experience playing with 220VAC and water to build an automated, digitally controlled ecosystem. A place, where you can be the climate-change. Double the temperature, triple the floods, let it storm or rain. A Tamagotchi that generates food from electricity. All done with Arduino, raspberry Pi and Node.js.
Show and tell of our food replicator project, filled with experiences and lessons learned about Node.js controlled Arduinos on a raspberry Pi. From a web app down to controlling environmental conditions in an ecosystem, by talking JSON. A quantified environment that automatically adapts itself to the needs of its flora and fauna, driven by machine learning. Aquaponics in combination with robotics. Fish and plants inside a machine and the Implications for future food production. For more information, visit www.plantsandmachines.com