The Eduponics Mini v2 is a platform built around the open source ESP32 microcontroller. This IoT board is equipped with useful sensors in agricultural apps such as temperature, humidity, soil moisture, etc. In addition to Wi-Fi//BLE connectivity, the Eduponics Mini v2 includes Grove connectors and IO expansion pins for additional peripherals.

The ESP32 module featured in this product seems to be the ESP32-WROVER-B seen on the gCore GUI platform not so long ago. This ESP32 module comes with 8MB of memory along with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, BL 4.2 and BLE support. 

Eduponics Mini v2 kit
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Other upgrades include support “for HY-2.0, Grove-compatible water-level, soil-moisture, and pump interfaces, as well as 4-pin I²C sensors and a RTC BM8563 module with crystal oscillator to fix previous hardware bugs.”

The developer company STEMinds, will also offer compatible accessories such as a waterproof soil moisture-sensor, a four-channel valve-extension board and an upgraded Eduponics Mini extension board which integrates four relay modules, an ADS1115 ADC chip for analog readings, a MCP23017 IO chipset, connected directly to four relays and more Grove connectors.

STEMinds soil-moisture sensors and extension boards(click image to enlarge)

STEMinds also provided tables comparing the features of their new Eduponics Mini board to other similar platforms. See the images below for more information.   

   
Eduponics Mini comparison (left) and STEMinds Soil-Moisture Sensor(right)(click images to enlarge)

For software development, STEMinds has provided a GitHub repository and a Wiki which will include source and up to 15 detailed lessons to get started with the Eduponics Mini. As other ESP32 modules, the Eduponics Mini supports MicroPython and the Arduino IDE.

       
Eduponics Mini v2 board(click image to enlarge)