Look Mum, an LLM Can Water My Plants!

Overview Almost a year ago, I moved from the city to the countryside and started a new project: a small greenhouse. Manually managing the watering schedule quickly became a repetitive task, so I decided to merge my passion for technology with gardening. This article describes how I built a smart, automated watering system. Using a Raspberry Pi Pico W, several sensors, and the power of the AWS cloud with its AI models, the system now monitors environmental conditions and autonomously decides the best time to water the plants. ...

May 27, 2025 · 6 min

JarvisButton: how to invoke multiple AWS Lambda with one AWS IoT Button (not Enterprise ed.)

Introduction If you have an AWS account in Free Tier, bla bla bla ok stop: I am a AWS Lambda maniac. I only wrote about them (here, here). In this article, I want to talk about my new purchase that is - of course - related to AWS Lambda: the AWS IoT Button. It first made its appearance on the IoT scene in October of 2015 at AWS re:Invent with the introduction of the AWS IoT service. That year all re:Invent attendees received the AWS IoT Button providing them the opportunity to get hands-on with AWS IoT. So cute. Since that time, AWS IoT button has been made broadly available to anyone interested in the clickable IoT device. Here it is! 😎😎😎 ...

March 18, 2018 · 7 min

Predix Machine and how to configure them

Predix Machine and how to configure them In September, waiting for a contract proposal from the company where I currently work, I wrote a tool for the (more or less) automatic configuration of Predix© Machine. Predix©1 is the platform created by GE for Industry 4.0, powered by CloudFoundry2, to securely connect machines, data, and analytics to improve operational efficiency, help you develop, deploy, and operate industrial apps at the edge and in the cloud. As part of my internship I worked with the predix machine and I shared my work to the GE platform. GE mantains an open repository with predix tool ...

December 21, 2017 · 7 min