Initial research and prototyping Hothouse is a reactive weather system designed to accept data via Bluetooth and generate weather based on that data within a house structure. In practical terms, it consists of a Bluetooth-enabled Arduino board with custom electronics that control mist (clouds), water (precipitation) and lighting effects. Hothouse produces the weather from Mt …
Technical research and development for this work was broken into 4 main areas: Data acquisition and wrangling from Mt Kinabalu Sensor and board design for the weather making Orchid growing requirements and acquisition House structure design and LED sign programming The following table identifies the key hardware and software elements for this work: Hothouse circuit …
Design for this stage included freehand sketches, Google SketchUp plans, a wooden maquette, and working drawings for the final fabrication.
P rothschildianum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P_rothschildianum_JbotMtl.JPG A brief European history of P.rothchildianum. Paphiopedilum rothschildianum is an orchid that is on top of the endangered species list, and has a history worthy of its nickname. Britain’s Queen Victoria was so attracted to Paphiopedilums that people who discovered new species would name them after her, including Paphiopedilum victoria-mariae and Paphiopedilum victoria-regina. In 1887, Paphiopedilum rothschildianum …
Hothouse was exhibited at the Cementa 17 event in Kandos, NSW, Australia. The audience consisted of art enthusiasts and local farmers and miners from the region. This meant that a broad range of responses and interpretations of the work. Local agricultural farmers were interested in the systems used to support the orchid, and pointed out …