Flower Pi

A raspberry pi powered flower that shows the current pollen count.

Features

• Scrapes the Met Office for UK regional pollen count
• An LED clock, the background for which represents the pollen count (red = high, yellow = medium, green = low)
• A sensor that turns the LEDs on for a few seconds when it notices movement
• Error reporting using IFTTT (keyed by an environment variable)
• Signal handling to turn off all the lights if the program is asked by the OS to stop

Missing features:

• Tests 😭

Physical Parts:

Controlled by the app:

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• RasPiO InsPiRing Driver Board
• RasPiO InsPiRing Circle
• PIR sensor, connected to GPIO 17, GND and 3.3V

Additionally, by editing /boot/config:

• a button (with resistor) to turn the device on/off by connecting GPIO3 to GND.
• a power led (with resistor) connected to GPIO 13 and GND