botanicalls allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help. When humans phone the plants, they orient callers to their habits and characteristics, including how they like to be watered and cared for. botanicalls opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species cohabitation and understanding.
Based on sensor information, plants are able to place outgoing phone calls to a nearby telephone to express their needs. When a plant's microcontroller determines that the plant needs to make a phone call, it contacts a PHP script with the plant's ID number and type of need. PHP then packages this information and passes it on to Asterisk (an open-source telephone system) which generates the call. When the call is placed, an audio file in played in the voice of the plant expressing its need. 1/4/2007 11:49:18 AM ---
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