Soilbuddy
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A tiny stick you push into the dirt that lights up to tell you if a plant needs a drink.
AgricultureRegenerativeTech regenerativeagriculture-landopen-infrastructure
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About
A cheap, solar-powered sensor with a red-yellow-green light — no app or internet needed to read it.
Impact
Farmers waste less water, crops stop dying from over- or under-watering, and small farms grow more food with less guessing.
Progress
Built a working prototype and tested it on 10 real plants for 3 weeks — the light matched true soil moisture every time.
Team
Grew up gardening with my grandma, taught myself to build sensors, and I care about food and water problems.
Funding
No displayed figures preserved for this project.
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/soilbuddy
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Not recovered: creator, links, funding, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.