Products
I make things you can buy.
Alongside client work, I design and manufacture my own products: small-batch electronics, built and shipped from my workshop. Every one of them is available from the Hortus.dev shop.
The lineup
Designed, built, and shipped in-house.
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Interactive pin badges
Wearable electronics with personality. The Social Battery badge shows how much socialising you have left, and seasonal designs like the Christmas Mood badge light up on demand. Each runs on a single coin cell.
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Fire String
A jar of firelight without the fire. Real-time flame simulation drives an LED string with colours derived from black-body radiation curves, and a browser-based configurator lets you tune it to taste.
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Tiny2048
A playable game of 2048 on a compact custom board. A grid of addressable RGB LEDs is the display, and tilting the board is the controller. It doubles as a neat little ESP32 dev board.
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Houseplant watering monitor
Capacitive soil moisture sensing that tells you when a plant actually needs water, designed to run for over a year on a single battery.
Prices and stock live on the shop. Some designs are seasonal, so they come and go through the year.
Why I make them
Small products, real manufacturing.
The shop is a labour of love: things I wanted to exist, made in small batches because making them is the fun part. But every product here still went from schematic to PCB layout to firmware, then through assembly, test, packaging, and fulfilment in my own workshop.
Shipping my own products end to end is why I understand manufacturability, yield, and unit cost from direct experience rather than theory, and it's the same discipline I bring to client work.
Get in touch
Buy one, or commission one.
Everything above is ready to order from the shop. And if you'd like custom electronics designed and built for a product of your own, tell me about it.
