Dhruv Damle
Seedling is a personal food harvesting system that lets you grow your own vegetables. It is a modular indoor greenhouse equipped with hydroponics, a microcontroller, sensors and actuators with which you can control the climate parameters best suited for your plants.
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Future holds spectacular reforms in the ecosystems based around our daily needs. Food, the most basic need of the population, is currently undergoing some interesting experiments enabled by technology. With constraints on farming resources, food production and lifestyle are largely affecting each other, and technology is playing a key role in food production. Seedling is a personal food harvesting system that lets you grow your own vegetables. It is a modular indoor greenhouse equipped with microcontroller, sensors and actuators with which one can control climate parameters best suited for the plants. The audience is the set of people who would love to experiment and see how food production could be made more personal and customizable, and how it would impact our lifestyle in future.
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