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HydroGrow

Automated hydroponic system for watering and light cycles: university concept through assembled prototype.

Role: PCB, industrial design, and DFM
Timeframe: 2020-2022 · university → prototype
Stack: Custom PCB, grow lighting, watering cycles, 3D / DFM
Status: Prototype

Problem

Home hydroponics that still needs manual watering and light schedules. The brief was an automated system: watering and light cycles on a custom PCB, designed so the piece could move from a university concept toward something manufacturable.

What I Built

PCB design, industrial design / 3D modeling, and design-for-manufacturing from concept to an assembled prototype. Grow lighting and watering cycles driven by the board rather than a bench timer.

Hard Part

On this class of product the usual constraints are fluid path reliability, thermal and light uniformity, and a board that survives humidity.

Result

Assembled prototype and product renders. No public yield or growth-rate claims on this page.

Media

White sculptural hydroponic planter with a green plant under an integrated circular grow light

HydroGrow unit on green background with four seedlings under clear domes — Studio render: unit with seedlings under humidity domes and grow-light ring.

Close-up of HydroGrow base showing five pod openings with clear domes — Angled view of five planting pods with humidity domes and label tabs.

Overhead render of HydroGrow circular base with five plant pods — Top-down layout of the five-pod planting ring.

HydroGrow empty unit showing rectangular compartment in the base — Empty unit: electronics / control compartment visible at the base.