The Plant Link team, which includes ECE and MechSE alums, has only been in the Kickstarter game for two weeks. But they’re already within $10,000 of their funding goal. Once they hit $75,000, they’ll begin manufacturing their new product. Plant Link is a system that monitors the water needs of your lawn, garden, or house plants. It alerts you when they need to be watered and can even water them for you. Talk about a multidisciplinary project. They’re tackling the build of the sensors, hacking the app that will run the whole thing and link it to your home automation, designing and planning manufacture of the devices themselves–not to mention managing the project and marketing the product.

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There are current students on the team too. So they’re getting support from Illinois’ Technology Entrepreneur Center, Research Park, and faculty members. But mostly, they’re pouring themselves into a big project, based on their own intellectual passions and the technical skill they were taught at Engineering at Illinois.

Kickstarter is all about word of mouth and building excitement out in the world. So tell your friends about Plant Link and a check out their Kickstarter video.