ENTC student from Pune who likes getting hands dirty with sensors, microcontrollers and code. Right now I'm focused on making farming easier with affordable IoT — starting with my own smart irrigation setup.
3+
Projects built
2+
Years tinkering
1
Farm automated
100%
Hand-built, no templates
A bit about me
The short version of who I am and what I care about.
I'm an Electronics & Telecommunication engineering student at Sinhgad Institute of Technology (SPPU, Pune). What pulled me into this field wasn't textbooks — it was watching how much time and water gets wasted on farms back home, and realising a ₹500 sensor could fix a lot of it.
Since then I've been building small, practical things: a remote motor controller for irrigation, automation experiments with microcontrollers, and AI-generated educational content that actually reaches people on social media. I'd rather ship something simple that works than plan something perfect that never gets built.
B.E. ENTC — Sinhgad Institute of Technology, SPPU
Based in Pune, Maharashtra
Focus: IoT for agriculture & automation
Currently learning: embedded systems & Python
My journey so far
How a curious kid ended up soldering sensors in a hostel room.
School days
Took apart more things than I fixed
Old radios, toy motors, anything with wires. Most didn't survive, but the curiosity did.
2023
Joined ENTC at Sinhgad Institute, SPPU
Finally got a proper lab, proper tools, and people who didn't mind me asking too many questions.
2024
First real IoT build
A basic sensor + relay setup that actually worked. That feeling got me hooked on building for real problems.
2025
Smart irrigation system
Built a remote motor controller so farmers don't have to walk to the field at odd hours.
Now
Exploring AI + content
Mixing AI tools with what I know about electronics to make educational content people actually watch.
What I work with
Tools and topics I use regularly — still learning every day.
IoT & Automation
Smart systems with sensors, relays and remote control. This is where I spend most of my build time.
SensorsRelaysRemote control
AI Tools
Content creation, workflow automation and creative AI. I use these daily for my educational reels.
ContentAutomation
Embedded Basics
Microcontrollers, hardware logic and circuit fundamentals from my ENTC coursework and projects.
MicrocontrollersCircuits
Python & Web
Scripting, small automations, plus enough HTML/CSS to build and deploy this site myself.
PythonHTML/CSS
Things I've built
Real projects, built with real constraints (mostly a student budget). Click any project for the full story.
Smart Irrigation System
IoT-based remote motor control so farmers don't have to walk to the field at odd hours. Saves water, time and a lot of effort.
Passionate about building affordable technology for agriculture and rural communities. Long-term goal: develop IoT systems that are robust enough for field use on a student budget. Currently exploring embedded systems more deeply and learning Python automation.
Everyone in engineering college has a 'project idea'. Most of them come from YouTube tutorials. Mine came from watching someone walk two kilometres at 11 PM to switch on a water pump.
Where I come from, that's normal. The electricity schedule for farms isn't always friendly, so when power arrives, someone has to be physically there to start the motor. Miss the slot, and the crop waits another day. Forget to switch off, and you flood the field and waste electricity.
The ₹500 realisation
In my first year of ENTC, I learned what a relay does. That was the moment it clicked: the gap between this textbook component and that 11 PM walk was embarrassingly small. A microcontroller with Wi-Fi, a relay module, and a basic enclosure — the core parts cost less than a family dinner out.
Building it for real users
The hard part wasn't the circuit. It was designing for someone who has never used anything more complex than WhatsApp. Every extra button is a reason for them to stop using it. So I kept it brutally simple: motor on, motor off, and an automatic mode driven by a soil moisture sensor.
What the field taught me
Lab circuits are pampered. Field circuits deal with dust, humidity, voltage spikes and network dead zones. My first version died within a week. The second survived. That iteration loop taught me more than any semester.
If you're a student sitting on a 'small' idea because it doesn't feel impressive enough — build it. Small and real beats big and imaginary, every single time.
Remote motor controller for farm irrigation — built for real users on a student budget.
The problem was simple: farmers in my area had to physically be at their pump at whatever time the electricity schedule allowed. Miss it, and the crop waits. Stay too long, and you flood the field.
The solution
A Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller connected to a relay module, housed in a weatherproof enclosure. The farmer opens a simple mobile interface: motor on, motor off, or auto mode driven by a soil moisture sensor.
Hardware components
ESP-based microcontroller with built-in Wi-Fi
5V relay module (controls the 230V pump circuit)
Capacitive soil moisture sensor
Weatherproof ABS enclosure
Power supply module
What I learned
The circuit wasn't the hard part. Designing for someone who's never used anything more complex than WhatsApp was. Every extra button is a reason to stop using it. The UI is deliberately minimal.
My first version died in a week from dust and humidity. The second survived because I learned about proper enclosure sealing, flyback diodes, and why TVS diodes matter on relay outputs. The field is the best teacher.
Impact
The system is in active use. Trips to the field at odd hours have gone down dramatically. Water waste from over-irrigation has been reduced with the auto mode. It cost less than ₹1500 in components total.
Experimenting with AI tools to make electronics and IoT accessible on social media.
Most technical content on social media is either too dense for beginners or too shallow to be useful. I wanted to try a different approach: use AI tools to produce short, well-paced educational reels that actually teach something.
The workflow
Topic research and script drafting with AI writing tools
Voiceover generated or recorded and refined
Visuals: a mix of screen recordings, diagrams and AI-generated imagery
Editing in a short-form format (60–90 seconds max)
What I found
AI cuts production time significantly, but the editorial judgement still has to be human. Knowing which details to cut, which analogy actually lands, which visual makes a concept click — that still takes a person who understands the subject.
Topics covered
Relay basics, soil moisture sensors, how Wi-Fi microcontrollers work, intro to GPIO pins — all aimed at curious non-engineers who might actually use this knowledge.
This project is ongoing. I treat it as a way to solidify my own understanding: if I can explain it simply, I actually know it.
Built entirely by hand — no site builders, no frameworks, no shortcuts.
I built this site the same way I approach hardware: understand each component before using it. No site builders, no CSS frameworks. Just HTML, CSS and a small amount of vanilla JavaScript.
What's in it
Dark / light mode with localStorage persistence
Scroll-triggered reveal animations via IntersectionObserver
Animated counters
Responsive navigation with a mobile hamburger menu
AJAX contact form via Formspree
Lightbox gallery
Custom cursor dot on desktop
Full SEO: canonical URLs, OG tags, JSON-LD structured data
Print stylesheet for the resume page
Why hand-code it
Because every line you write is something you understand. When something breaks, you know where to look. And a portfolio that shows you can build a portfolio is its own statement.
Deployment
Hosted on a custom domain (shrikanttalekar.in), deployed from a Git repository. The entire site is static — no server-side code, no database, fast load times everywhere.
