A smart study shelf for students who know they're not focusing — and can't fix it alone. It locks your phone away, runs your Pomodoro sessions, lights your desk, and tracks your progress.
That line came from a real student interview, and every engineering student we talked to recognized it instantly: the phone within reach, the missed homework that snowballs, the midterm that could have been an A+. Willpower isn't a system. EduShelf is.
Built on the same stack as our robots: ESP32, custom PCB, sensors, motors, and an LCD — engineered, not glued together.
Customer development ran ahead of the hardware: 25 structured interviews with ASU students shaped the feature set — the phone lock and Canvas tracker exist because interviewees asked for them, not because we guessed. The plan: start local at ASU Polytechnic, expand across ASU campuses, then the Greater Phoenix area.
Pitched live at ASU — and walked away with the runner-up certificate.
Same BESTARORG DNA as CropSCOUT — different problem, same habit of building the whole thing ourselves.