Plants vs. Trojans

Having a houseplant is great for the environment and one's personal mental health. We created a product that incentivizes taking good care of your houseplants by gamifying the process.

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Inspiration

A Bruin-spirited twist on the popular franchise Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Trojans seeks to help anyone who has trouble keeping their plant friends alive by gamifying the processing of plant care.

What it does

Plants vs. Trojans helps users take care of their plants by rewarding them through a game we made that is integrated with our sensors. Points from good plant care such as providing adequate water and sunlight allows users to unlock new, playable characters!

How we built it

We built this by making the circuit with a soil moisture sensor and UV light sensor that monitor the plant's environment. We then connected a Wi-Fi module that sent the data to a web server that we developed. This data from the web server is then used by our game to determine points.

Challenges we ran into

Setting up a web server, communicating that data over Wi-Fi, and integrating all of our parts together proved to be great challenges.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're especially proud of the seamless integration of electronics and software that make our product possible and the fun pixel art style that is layered throughout the game.

What we learned

We learned that integrating many independent parts together takes a lot of time and documentation reading. This can be done more efficiently by creating and assigning tasks together beforehand.

What's next for Plants vs. Trojans

We already have a couple of ideas to make the game more engaging and helpful by adding power-ups that are exchangeable by points and plant care tips based on the environment data from our sensors.

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