Hey folks!! Got some exciting news over the weekend and this past evening I have finished routing the PCB for Vine!! I had to do some tweaks to the board shape giving it a small increase in size so I coudl accommodate the proper relay driiving circuity , the rest of the work was just powerplane design and routing. I am very pleased with the results:

3D Renders:

Overall I'm very pleased with how this first board in the project has come out. I took a long time deliberating on feature set and orientation/location of parts/features until I got it to look just right. Its hard to describe the aesthetic I want for my hardware I want things to look great but also be functional this particular design took a bit longer than others but again I'm very happy with the layout. The next step with this design will be to put it through DRC testing and get it ready for fabrication. I will be using OSHPark for getting PCBs made and getting parts from Digikey. The plan is to hand assemble a few of these so I can build a small scale RS485 network of them and deploy them on the NFT hydroponic garden I built in 2015 thats currently in my basement.  (NFT Unit project: https://hackaday.io/project/7116-low-cost-nft-hydroponic-garden-under-250)

Stay tuned for more updates!! I'll be working on two other variants of Vine one with more relays and one that is all sensors, as well as the Ivy board which is a version that has all the MCU pins broken out for daughter card addons. Stay tuned we are just getting started and like all my past entries expect a lot of hardware designs!!!