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A cloud-connected isolated and automated plant growth environment, able to generate any environment from a combination of independent environment parameters.

Designed as both a hassle-free food production system and a research tool for precise and distributed mapping of the plant-environment relationship.

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Submitted to the NASA/CSA Deep Space Food Challenge. Update: PeaPod has won Phase 1 and moved on to prototyping for Phase 2!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zWv9JC5G3w" target="_blank"><img src="docs/assets/renders/backdrop.png" width=90% style="border: 5px solid #333"/></a>

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Table of Contents

• Background
  • Features
• Production
• Development
• Contribution
  • New Issue
  • Existing Issues
• Acknowledgements

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Background

See our requirements document.

Features

See our progress report.

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Production

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TBA.

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Development

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See software/README and the individual subsystems for development details.

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Contribution

New Issue

1. Open an issue with the features you'd like to add/bugs you'd like to see squashed (admins will add labels, assignments, etc.)
2. Discuss the scope and specifics in the issue, and either:
   1. Make a new branch, make changes, open a PR Draft (if you have permissions); or
   2. Fork this repo, make changes, open a PR Draft.
3. Request review by changing the PR Draft to a full-blown PR when you think it's ready.
4. If the reviewer(s) accept the changes, they will merge the PR and close the related issue.

Existing Issues

Check out our open issues!

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Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to the following individuals and groups:

• MIT Media Lab's Open Agriculture Initiative (for inspiration)
• The Open Source community
• Deep Space Food Challenge administrators and participants