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I've received back in May my 1st PCB prototype of my upcoming Intelligrow project. The purpose of the project is to program plant parameters in the ESP8266 and let Intelligrow manage the growth of the plant. It does so by : 1) Sensing ambient light 2) Sensing soil moisture 3) Sensing temperature It controle : 1) Flow of water going to the soil 2) Artificial lighting 3) Plant management alarms and water tank level The 1st PCB prototype worked right away, as I'm used to with PCBgogo. The stencil I've got with my order was of the highest quality and I was able to populate a single board in less than an hour. As always, my experience with PCBgogo has been excellent, from importing gerbers to receiving my PCBs in less than 10WKdays. I'm glad to be a customer of a company that gives their customer the best service possible. See the attached pictures of the project.

Even though this board has much less components than my previous designs I decided to test PCBgogo's assembly service. And I must say that the result is of the same high level of quality as their PCBs. Very clean soldering, accurate placement, quality components. I will most probably come back with a more substantial order of this design.

I desigend this board primarily for the use with my students as a replacement for the combination of an ATmega328 and a separate programmer. Using a slightly modified Caterina bootloader it can be used as an Arduino or as an AVR microcontroller without the Arduino framework. More documentation to follow. THe pictures show the rendering from KiCAD and the delivered PCB.