liquid Tree is decorative, functional, and green. It’s a liquid feedback display created by [Jia Yi Lin] that is developed to tell you exactly how much water you’re wasting in the shower. Behind the pretty tubes is some interesting hardware. [Lin] used an Arduino board, and based her code off the Unipolar Stepper example. She’s posted her own code and wiring for the project. When hot water is turned on, the motors decrease the amount of liquid in the tubes. This triggers the pattern to slowly disappear, indicating water consumed.

[via NOTCOT]