Flower Power!

A few months back I had written about a desire for a set of in situ monitors for gardens.  I had ultimately found some interesting hobby-based tools that could be plugged together for monitor sunlight and other conditions.  While reading my most recent Macworld, I ran across an ad for the Parrot Flower Power and had to investigate further.

There doesn't seem to be much information on Amazon in terms of customer reviews, despite the fact that the product has been available since October.  There is a grand total of one review.  However, there are reviews out there on the web and they seem to be reasonably positive first looks.  See the reviews on The Australian or Futureshop.

It is intriguing enough that I'll be purchasing one and letting you know how it goes.  Probably can delay this purchase until closer to the spring season when I'll be looking to do some planting in the yard.  At that point, I'll talk about how the tool stacks up to what I was hoping to get in my previous blog post.  Already, I think its reasonable to complain that the information that is being collected won't be mine (i.e., I won't have control of it nor access to it excepting through the Parrot app or website and will be subject to whatever limitations exist).