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How to Take Time-Lapse Pictures of Your Plants Growing via Lifehacker [Raspberry Pi]

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How to Take Time-Lapse Pictures of Your Plants Growing via Lifehacker

How to Take Time-Lapse Pictures of Your Plants Growing via Lifehacker

Plant life comes at you fast; before you know it that little sprout is a full grown monster plant, desperate for a bigger pot. If you’re a green thumb type who’s fascinated by your plant’s progress, here is the perfect way to document every tender unfurling.


Artist and programmer Nicole He set up a camera powered by a Raspberry Pi computer to document the slow growth of her fiddle-leaf fig plant. She programmed the computer to post a picture everyday to Twitter under the handle @grow_slow, in case anyone else wanted to follow its development. After two years, He compiled them all into a little video of “growth and movement”:

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