In 1206, an engineer named Ismail Al-Jazari built machines that raised water using nothing but gears and gravity. Engineers still call him the Father of Robotics, eight centuries on.
Rice farmers in Bangladesh still do it his way, minus the gears: to know if a paddy field needs water, someone has to walk out, look into a pipe, and judge the depth by eye. Every single day.
A few months ago, I didn't know what a breadboard was. I'd never held a jumper wire. For my first engineering project, I decided to fix that problem anyway .
Jazari Flow is the result: an ESP32 that reads water depth, soil moisture, rain, and a 48-hour forecast, then decides on its own whether to pump, hold, or wait out the rain. No more walking to the pipe.
I led the build and handled most of the coding and wiring, but I didn't get here alone. By the grace of Almighty Allah, a lot of patience, and more sleepless nights than I can count, we ended up with a working system.
It's been running for weeks now — over 7,000 sensor readings on a public dashboard I can check and control from anywhere, plus 16+ alert emails landing right when the field actually needed attention. Proof it works in practice, not just on paper.
Last week, I took it to RoboCore 1.0's Project Showcasing segment with Shibbir Ahmed and Abdullah Al Noman, and we were named Champion — organized by the MIST Robotics Club. Thankful to Shibbir and Abdullah for standing by this project, to Sanando, Naoraj, and Afif for building it with me from day one, and to Brig Gen KM Mustafizur Rahman, Head of the Department of EECE, and the whole club for the platform.
But this isn't the finish line. Zero to one was the hardest climb of my life so far, and it's only the first one. There's a long way still to go — for my community, my country, and for the Ummah .
#Robotics #IoT #AgriTech #Bangladesh
26 September 2026 à 09h27
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