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Your plant has its needs but it can’t communicate them to you.
Lua turns your favorite plant into a spirited virtual pet! It's the perfect addition to your inner garden houseplants: its lively personality makes it the ideal plant companion.
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Stretch Goals:
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€50k ✓ = Water reservoir sub-irrigation system. It means less frequent watering and your plant receives all the water it needs automatically. When Lua is thirsty = reservoir is empty; Lua is sick = reservoir is full.
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€100k ✓ = Standard QI wireless power transfer
You will be able to choose your color after the end of the campaign.
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Lua saves your greenery and makes you skip the hassle of an intricate setup: the free mobile app only requires an internet connection once for the download, and is then operational, even offline! Using Lua’s app is literally as simple as scanning a QR code!
- Lua displays 15 different real-time animations:
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6 animations are directly related to your plant’s health and overall well-being, while the 9 others give Lua and your plant, a spark of life.
6 essential animations:
Thirsty: When soil moisture drops under the defined threshold, you need to water your plant.
Sick: Too much water can kill your plant too, wait until Lua is thirsty to add water.
Vampire: After a few days Lua will turn into a vampire if exposure to light is not sufficient.
Squint: Too much exposure to light can harm your plant, when Lua is squinting it’s looking for shade.
Cold: When the temperature drops. Lua will sneeze the day after.
Hot: Lua is too hot.
Other animations:
Happy: Lua is back to normal.
Puzzled: Lua couldn’t read your QR code.
Wink: You showed a QR code to Lua and it understood it.
Tired: Lua will go back to sleep when there’s no movement in front of it.
Wake-up: When Lua senses a movement.
Grumpy: Random animation. If stretch goal #2 is reached, Lua will look grumpy when there’s a good chance of rain.
Tongue sticking out: Random animation.
Motion tracking feature:
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Lua detects a movement and follows it with the eyes. If nothing happens, Lua will go back to sleep.
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The app has been entirely designed around simplicity and ease-of-use:
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Download Lua app & let the easy setup install it in less than no time.
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Choose your plant’s family, the exact type of plant or manually set your own preferred thresholds.
- Make Lua read the generated QR code and it’s all set!
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The app lets you browse your plant’s category and type, then generates a QR code holding info specific to your plant. Lua reads the QR code generated on your device’s screen and sets the parameters.
The app allows you to change Lua’s facial proportions and automatically adapts the animations accordingly.
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The motion sensor allows Lua’s eyes to follow the movement in front of them: it’s like Lua’s looking at you!
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- The planter comes with a sub-irrigation water reservoir. It means less frequent watering and your plant gets all the water it needs*.
- Lua uses 4 sensors to assist you in monitoring your plant’s well-being: Water level sensor*, light sensor, motion sensor and temperature sensor.
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Dimensions: Ø 15 cm x 16 cm - Ø 5.9" x 6.3"
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Inner dimensions: Ø 12 cm x 10 cm - Ø 4.7" x 3.9"
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Weight: 500g
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Screen: IPS LCD - 2.4" - 320x240px
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Power supply: Standard USB
* Soil moisture sensor and saucer have been improved thanks to stretch goal #1 .
- Lua is powered by a standard Qi transmitter.
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Lua’s conception and development took 13 months. We now have a fully working prototype and will soon start: the tooling and the components procurement. The first units will be tested right before starting the manufacturing on the assembly line.
Lua’s final achievement relies on you! If this campaign reaches its goal, shipping should start in December 2019.
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Lua was born in our offices at Mu Design, here in Luxembourg. We are the creators of Ulo, an amazing project that we also definitely want to keep on improving. Our team saw Ulo grow, contributed to its development and will keep on doing so. Our motivation and willpower are intact : we’ve put all of our efforts in our latest product. We’ve kept a cool head during surreal moments, but also during harsh ones and we simply couldn’t be any prouder.
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Our aim is to build the emotive branch of IoT by making technology more ‘human-friendly’; for that good purpose, expanding our family of products is vital: Lua is the new sibling. Needless to say, Lua means a lot to us: a new product is like a new venture, you don’t start it without a purpose.
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For journalists, here's our press kit: https://mu-design.lu/lua
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