Just want to share what I've been working on lately which, of course, involves the awesome Moteino. This is one of the projects that I am working on for my portfolio to get into grad school.
Basically, it is a soil moisture/temperature/humidity sensor system for indoor plants. All the characters are constructed with 2.9mm bamboo plywood and then laser cut. The battery operated nodes (Moteino) transfers the data via wirelessly to a base station (raspberry pi + moteino) and alerts you when the soil is dry via email/sms/blinking light. I have other features planned but there is still a lot of code to write and learn (I just starting playing with the Arduino UNO, learning about electronics and learning how to program in April of this year). If I have time, i'll might venture into writing an android/iphone app to talk to the plants.
This is a still a work in progress as I still need to figure out the raspberry pi <-> moteino, and raspberry pi backend part. But the design and all the nodes are sending and receiving data and working very well.
I wasted some $$ on other arduino clones that were too small, too big, or used too much power. Good thing the Moteino fits my needs perfectly. Ok, I am starting to sound like an annoying fanboi already. Here are some pics!
Dbot
Bunny
Bunny in action
Bunny guts
Dinosaur guts
Dinosaur
Base station light test
Moteino for the base station. The power board has a 3.3v regulator that feeds power to the base LED lights. 5v goes into the moteino and raspberry pi.
modified raspberry pi. USB header, RCA, audio headers removed to save space. SD card was cut in half to save space.
The raspberry pi site diagonally in the enclosure to maximize space.
Finished base station.
Base LED light test/
Base LED light test. I wanted the unit to have a "floating" effect.
Dbot, finished.
Dbot back. Note the humidity/temperature sensor.
Robot guts.
More robot guts.
Dbot with soil probe.
Dbot and his friends.