vue - FarmBot: open source backyard robot for a fully automated garden
In the front yard of Rory Aronson’s San Luis Obispo home (that he shares with 9 roommates), a robot is tending his garden- seeding, watering, weeding and testing the soil- while he controls it from his his phone. FarmBot is what he calls “humanity's open-source automated precision farming machine”. https://farmbot.io/ As a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo he was inspired by a guest lecture in his organic agriculture class, “when a traditional farmer came in talking about some of the tractor technology he’s using on his farm and I looked at that and said, ‘Wait a minute, I can do that better’, explains Aronson. “The first thing that I thought of when I thought of the idea was, ‘Oh this probably exists let me go look it up’ and I scoured the Internet. I was amazed actually, that there was not a CNC-type farming equipment already existing so I said, well, I guess it’s up to me.” During the summer after graduation Aronson wrote a white paper to outline his ideas and within days he had the attention of “software developers, open-source enthusiasts, ag specialists, mechanical engineers, and more”. After several years of iterations and a crowdfunding campaign that has raised over a million dollars, the FarmBot team (Rory and programmers based worldwide) will release the FarmBot Genesis in early 2017. Using an Arduino and Raspberry Pi, FarmBots are “giant 3D printers, but instead of extruding plastic, its tools are seed injectors, watering nozzles, sensors, and more.” If you want to print your own, the specs are all free and open source, but if you’d rather buy an all-inclusive kit, it will cost you $2900, a number Aronson says will come down with time. He sees it as a long-term investment. “Because it’s so based in software, all of the functions, it will get better over time so even if you bought a kit today the hardware won’t change, but the software will allow it to do more and more things over time”. “My long-term vision for FarmBot is that it’s a home appliance,” explains Aronson. “Just like everyone has a refrigerator and a washing machine and a drier maybe you have a Farmbot too and in the backyard doing it’s thing and it’s like a utility that you use. You turn on the water on your faucet and water comes out, you go out into your backyard and there’s food that’s been grown for you.” Original story: https://faircompanies.com/videos/open-source-bot-plants-maintains-your-garden-when-you-cant/
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what happen whe is raining , the step motor could get broke?
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lol @ all the naysayers. They're this generation's "we'll never fly" or "we'll never land on the moon".
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have you thought about building it as a robot on wheels, instead of on a frame?
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so cool, but needs an attachment and sensors to frighten away vermin, too. But overall, very very cool!
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Brilliant. Thinking of this for our school garden.
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A primitive iteration, but the concept is there, no small feat!!! Kudos for pioneering a new small technology, one with enormous potential for good when fully realized and available in scale as well as demonetized. Open sourcing was brilliant! Staying tuned to see what is next....... (As noticed on comments below, the noise heard when the robot operated was from the camera operating in conjunction with the gantry.)
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the same people that are too lazy to garden, are too lazy to build this thing.
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cool concept, but that guy is annoying as hell. "i just talk liKE THIS, some people call it uPSPEAK, i raise my voICE after each senTENCE like I'm asking a queSTION"
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I love this idea. I really do. But remember that movie where Jim Carrey demonstrates the most annoying sound in the world? This robot makes that sound.
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Big Article circulating via several folks on FB this week regarding this...
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Has anyone thought of doing a row system in which one machine spans multiple-unlimited beds all in line with each other and level then is high enough you can walk under the machine when it comes time to harvest?
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I love this young man. love love love love love his soul.
I thank God for this channel. Kirsten you are such a blessing to the world. Keep up the sharing.
May love and peace triumph over hate forevermore.
This young man will help change the world. God bless him. -
7:50 that's a robot programmed to kill
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this will be replaced with drone technology really soon so you better hurry up
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how do you isolate steppers from rain and moisture?
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Awsome & it's free keep up the good work!i want one I'm lazy and not tech savy how much wood you charge for one of your kits and do you make custom jobs?
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Incredible idea! BUT I see that the plants are placed all equal distance. That cannot produce good crop, cause there are different space needs for every plant. Anyways thats something that will be fixed with future software updates, i guess.
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gotta put the thing on wheels to roll on the ground and cover a large area. and make it quiet and not annoying.
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noisey and overkill for a simple task...i enjoy communing with nature...this stupid contraption is a waste of time and ruins a perfectly good way to connect with soil and earth and your food. Fuck these people for being so lazy and using their intelligence to be even more lazy
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Buy the $4,000 FarmBot. Or hire a gardener for $800 a summer.
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