21 Been working on an automation and grow platform in Agtech – looking for thoughts, opinions, questions etc.

Im 21, based out of the GTA in Oshawa Ontario.

This is a product that has been in the works for years, initially starting as martha tent for mushrooms, hand misting and adjusting airflow manually. Until I realized something bigger, every grower deals with this. Doesn’t matter if you’re growing mushrooms, running hydro, doing aquaponics, or growing in soil. We’re all fighting the same battle with different parameters.

The solution was already there, buy the right equipment, get a system automated and have something that works. But then theres the money, alone the curiosity. Why cant I use my own sensors? What if I want control, to grow my mushrooms, hydroponics, even my entire greenhouse all with the same system.

So I started building.

A fully modular, open source automation system built on ESP32. Hot-swappable sensors. Configure it for whatever you’re growing. Use it as-is or hack it into something completely different. It’s yours to own, modify, and repair.

Im doing this because I believe healthy food should be accessible to everyone. Community gardens shouldn’t need $10k automation systems. Food kitchens growing their own produce shouldn’t be priced out of basic environmental controls. Home growers shouldn’t be locked into proprietary ecosystems that nickel and dime them for every sensor.

This is about putting control back in growers’ hands. All growers. Beginner to Commercial even. Anywhere, really.

I’m not here to sell you anything, I aint even close to that stage. I’m here because I’m building this whether people care or not, but I’d rather build something that actually solves your problems instead of just mine.
Everything will be open sourced. Full transparency. No proprietary bull shit. If you want to build it yourself, modify it, or use it as a foundation for your own project (that’s the entire point).

If you could automate one thing what would it be?

What data would you actually care about gathering for your plants vs what gets ignored?

Is full on automation the goal or would you rather a hybrid approach that guides growers using sensors and stuff for data.

I more or less want to build a tool that is useful at the end of the day, one that can even improve the lives of those within my own community.

What do you think?