A very unique Arduino project has been created by a team of researchers at Stanford led by post-doctoral fellow Nariman Farsad, which is capable of sending text messages using common chemicals.

Just set up your accounts with Temboo and Twilio to get your Arduino connected and able to send SMS messages, and download the WasherDryerAlarm.ino to program your microcontroller.

The program could interface with Arduino through a serial port, and send data to Python, which in turn forwards it to your phone.

The researchers used an Arduino Uno board, an Adafruit LCD, a desk fan and a household spray bottle to transmit a short message across a tabletop, via molecular diffusion.