AURORA GREENHOUSE / V5
A little world.
Looking after
itself.
A greenhouse that looks after its plant by itself — now with a tilting screen and a sealed lid.
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V5 / THE NEXT CHAPTER
What’s new in V5
Tilts to your eye line.
A Bambu-style touchscreen on a front-left corner arm. Tilts from −5° to 40°, holds any angle and keeps its wiring hidden.
More room. Softer corners.
A bigger frame with rounded vertical corners. The same acrylic sheets still fit.
A simpler foundation.
No more slanted front console. A clean rounded base with the name engraved on the front.
Closes with care.
A lip-and-groove seal on all four sides, with a built-in opening stop.
Room for every moving part.
Every moving part is designed for FDM printing with 1 mm clearances.
Eight plates. One project.
The complete print set in one Bambu Lab P2S project with 8 plates.
01 / THE AURORA REMOTE
A little closer.
Even from afar.
Live readings, alerts and a familiar face in the palm of your hand. A second ESP32 talks to the greenhouse over LoRa 433 MHz. No Wi-Fi. No internet. Every message signed with a secret key.
AURORA REMOTE / v4.1
MAKE IT YOURS
Eight themes.
Your kind of calm.
Choose a theme, adjust brightness, or turn the display to landscape, portrait or flipped orientation. The live plant character comes with you.
Six theme previews from the project package. Swipe to explore →
02 / THE BIGGER PICTURE
Know how
your plant feels.
Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Connect over Bluetooth to see live conditions, explore 15 days of history, read daily summaries and event logs, export CSV data, or calibrate sensors.
03 / GROWING PERSONALITIES
Nine plants.
Nine personalities.
Each preset has its own ideal temperature, humidity and soil moisture. A character that smiles, sweats or droops makes the plant’s health easy to read.
- 01Tulsi
- 02Coriander
- 03Mint
- 04Methi
- 05Palak
- 06Chilli
- 07Aloe vera
- 08Money plant
- 09Microgreens
04 / THE EVOLUTION
Same care.
A whole new reach.
Aurora gets its name.
Smart Greenhouse becomes Aurora Greenhouse.
Care travels further.
A long-range LoRa link and the handheld Aurora Remote bring the greenhouse to you.
Refined, inside and out.
Remote orientation, eight themes, brightness and live avatars. Dedicated SPI wires for the greenhouse LoRa radio.
0.5 sA small sip of water
→90 sTime to soak
→Re-checkDaily limits + empty-tank alerts
Nine plant presets and their characters, careful watering, and a new enclosure and carrier PCB in progress.
05 / UNDER THE SURFACE
Small footprint.
Thoughtful hardware.
- Enclosure V5
- 316 × 229 × 268 mm · about 324 × 301 × 324 mm including the screen · printed in PLA
- Controller
- ESP32-S3 N16R8 · 16 MB flash · 8 MB PSRAM
- Sensing
- DHT22 temperature + humidity · capacitive soil probe · light sensor
- Water
- 12 V pump · servo presses the pump’s button
- Air + light
- 2 × 80 mm PWM fans · RGB LED grow strip
- Display
- 2.8-inch ILI9341 colour touchscreen · 320 × 240
- Radio
- Ai-Thinker Ra-02 · SX1278 · LoRa 433 MHz
- Remote
- Classic ESP32 · 4 MB flash · 2.8-inch touchscreen · Ra-02
- Power
- 12 V supply · LM2596 step-down to 5 V
06 / WHAT COMES NEXT
A home for
every connection.
A custom KiCad carrier board and a 3D-printed enclosure are in progress. Bringing the wiring together, giving every component a place, and making the next build easier to assemble.
IN DEVELOPMENT
07 / BUILD, LEARN, EXPLORE
Make it
your next project.
All firmware, apps, enclosure files, PCB files, wiring guides and documentation are available together through the project-files link below.
Open-source project files ↗Firmware
Greenhouse and Aurora Remote firmware.
Apps
Windows, macOS, Linux and Android app releases.
V5 3D-printable enclosure (Bambu Lab P2S .3mf)
Complete FDM print project with 8 plates.
3D-printable enclosure — previous version
Previous-version STL / 3MF enclosure files.
PCB files
Custom KiCad carrier board and Gerber files.
Wiring guides
Schematic, wiring card and LoRa connections, including the dedicated SPI wiring.
Documentation + troubleshooting
Setup instructions, detailed project documentation and troubleshooting.