Plant monitor

Open project · after lesson 8: The first true question wins

Make a plant monitor for a windowsill: it reads the light and the temperature, and its face tells you whether the plant is happy, too dark or too hot. What counts as too dark or too hot is up to you (look up what your plant likes).

One way it could look. Yours will be different.

You'll use

These light up when your code uses them. Click one to see where you learned it.

if else / else if change a variable from itself (x = x + 1, change by)

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Milestones

Tick each one when it is true of your project. Nobody marks it: be honest with yourself.

The face changes with the light level, decided by if and else.
A third face for too hot, in one if … else if … else, with the questions in an order that works.
A button shows how many times it has checked, counted in a variable.

Make it yours

A bar graph of the light on B.
A warning that flashes, not just a face.
Different limits for day and night.

Looking back

What was the hardest part, and how did you get past it?

Tick every milestone first.

Plant monitor

You'll use

Milestones

Make it yours

Looking back

★ Plant monitor

★ Plant monitor

Built with

Milestones

The hardest part