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This is one of the coolest uses of reddit/community sites that I have ever seen.

Out of curiosity, how did you come up with this idea?

Trying to impress a girl with my plant-keeping abilities ;) --We had a collaborative message thread reminding everyone to water our plants based upon a set schedule which I was going hook up to a pump to automate, and at the time Twitch Plays Pokemon was a big thing, so I just kind of combined the two ideas.

If you have interest in doing something similar, come check out the subreddit and feel free to DM me on reddit or twitter. Always happy to talk about plants and automation

So finally did you impress that girl or not? :D

No... but some people on the internet thought it was cool, so I can live with that :)

You impressed the Internet and that is a greater accomplishment than impressing a girl.

Perhaps not?

This is what I try to tell myself

You okay, friend?

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