Put that wasted computer time to good use by growing a plant. I know that you often procrastinate when you should be working...we all do it...looking at Facebook, at Instructables, watching YouTube and all of the other things that we do when we should be working.



Actually I developed this project for a workshop that I was asked to give in Pori, Finland during December of 2016. I based it on similar objects that I am experimenting with in my own work for my Master's thesis. At the end of this Instructable, you should have a small terrarium where you can grow a plant using LEDs which will use your computer as a power supply.



If you keep your USB Powered Plant on your desk and plugged into your computer, all that time you spend working, procrastinating, watching cat videos and learning how to do stuff will be also used for growing a little plant in its own ecosystem.



This whole project should take 1-2 hours and is based on the research which NASA has done on growing plants using artificial sources of light, there are links and further reading/research located at the end of this Instructable.