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Make Every Week: Arduino Texting

Texting is something I love playing with, and I’ve always wanted to make a sensor-bot that skipped the hassle of wifi by texting me its data.

So this week, I tried to make some progress on that by making a texting bot.

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Make Every Week: Question Bot

Texting is a quick way to exchange information with another person:


But what about with a robot?


In that little exchange, there are a couple of hitches to solve, which I took on for this week’s #MakeEveryWeek.

(To skip ahead to the results of my experiment, text the word hello to 646-887-6253.)

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Data Weather Editor at the New York Times • Previously at CNN, Quartz & WNYC • Founder, Really Good Smarts LLC

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