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  • What you can grow with FarmBot
    March 27, 2024

    What you can grow with FarmBot

    So what can you grow with these machines anyways? FarmBot is best suited to growing a polycrop of many common garden veggies at the same time. Think: carrots, onions, leafy greens, fresh herbs, squash, tomatoes, peppers, and more. But you're not limited...

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  • FarmBot Stories: Paint with your Garden
    December 13, 2023

    FarmBot Stories: Paint with your Garden

    See how Jonathon Wolfe uses his FarmBot Genesis v1.6 machine to collect phenotyping data of his garden in realtime, process it with PlantCV, and then generate unique artistic representations using Stable Diffusion. To get a FarmBot for your next artistic...

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  • FarmBot Digital Twin
    November 15, 2021

    FarmBot Digital Twin

    The FarmBot Digital Twin project produced a 3D simulation of a real garden using photogrammetry techniques. This project was a collaboration between Maxiem and Western Sydney University with assistance from FarmBot Inc. Watch the video to see the results! How will...

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  • July 24, 2013

    Precision Farming

    Agriculture equipment has been steadily becoming more accurate and precise with the advent of GPS autopiloting systems, short range radio location systems, and computer vision. All of these technologies are essentially augmenting the traditional free-driving tractor on wheels. Rather than...

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  • July 24, 2013

    Combining Efficiencies

    Food production is all about efficiency. How can I produce more food with less water, fertilizer, labor, etc? If we look at two farming paradigms, the monocrop and the polycrop, we can see where each one excels in efficiency, where...

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  • July 24, 2013

    The TRAG Systems Era

    For two and a half years from when I had the initial idea, FarmBot went by the name of TRAG systems, or Tracked Agriculture. During this time, I completed many hours of leg work including research, brainstorming, sketching, modeling, prototyping,...

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  • July 24, 2013

    A Stroke of Genius

    Hi! This is Rory, sharing with you the story of inspiration for the FarmBot project and how it got to where it is today. It all started my 3rd year of college (2011) while at Cal Poly in San Luis...

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