The true power of the OpenDendrometer is the realization that most of us have so much left to discover and understand about the life of plants. That those seemly unmoving creatures outside your window are actually very dynamic systems and that tools exist to observe their behaviors. 

It is weird to say since I have spent so much time developing it, but literally all the OpenDendrometer tool does is measure air temperature and small changes is displacement over time. Yet the data continues to capture my imagination about the life of plants -> periods of water stress and abundance, long term growth rates, changes that mark the seasons, and other stories that I haven't discovered yet.

If my work on the OpenDendrometer has made you even mildly curious about using commonly available electronics components to understand the life of plants, then this project has been a success.