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MicroGrow
A local-first growing environment project exploring understandable ways to monitor and control a single growing node.
- Project
- MicroGrow
- State
- PROTOTYPE
- Scope
- Single-node V1
- Operation
- Local-first
How it works at a high level
This explanatory flow shows the project’s role without presenting an internal architecture diagram or claiming capabilities beyond the current evidence.
- Climate sensorMeasures the growing environment.
- ESP32 local controllerReceives local inputs and coordinates the node.
- Bounded control logicApplies the documented control rules.
- Relay outputsProvides the controlled output path.
- Flutter local interfaceSupports monitoring, control and diagnostics.
Why it exists
Indoor growing depends on paying attention to environmental conditions and responding consistently. MicroGrow explores how local monitoring and bounded control can support that work without making a cloud service the centre of the system.
What it is
The current V1 is a single-node system built around an ESP32 controller, a local Wi-Fi and HTTP path, a climate-sensor input, relay outputs and a Flutter application for monitoring, control and diagnostics.
Current state: The project is at a prototype and controlled validation stage. The software spine and documented host checks are present, while physical validation gates remain partial and require further evidence.
What exists today
The repository records a single ESP32 node path, an SHTC3 climate-sensor integration, four relay outputs with safe-start behaviour, local HTTP communication and a Flutter client with monitoring, control and diagnostics workflows.
Documented
Repository evidence
Current product and architecture records describe the single-node V1 scope.
Implemented
Source-controlled implementation
The firmware, local HTTP path and Flutter application are represented in the current source record.
Validated
Evidence exists, not all gates closed
Firmware host checks, Flutter verification and prior bench records are present.
Still open
Owner and evidence review pending
Further physical validation is required before wider publication or readiness claims.
Visual evidence
These captures show selected current project surfaces. They do not establish production readiness.
How it fits into New Earth
MicroGrow is one practical project within the wider New Earth ecosystem. It explores local capability, maintainability and direct understanding while remaining compatible with wider cooperation. It is not the whole New Earth food strategy or proof that the wider model is complete.
Evidence and current progress
Public-safe evidence includes documented architecture, source-controlled implementation, firmware host checks and Flutter verification records.
The current evidence record also includes prior bench and node-validation material, but it does not establish production readiness or a finished physical product.
Current limitations
The current V1 scope is a single node; multi-node coordination and cloud services remain future work.
Physical load, calibration, enclosure, thermal, end-of-line and pilot-user evidence are not all closed in the current record.
MicroGrow is not presented as commercially available, production-ready, autonomous or a guarantee of growing outcomes.