While we’ve been working largely on ongoing projects such as developing the infrastructure to support Sequence variables in FarmBot OS and preparing for shipment of FarmBot Genesis v1.4 kits, we also released a handful of features and fixes to the Web...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] The FarmBot core team is happy to announce the launch of farmbot-serial, a Ruby library that helps developers interface with FarmBot hardware while abstracting away low level hardware details. It features an event...
As the FarmBot hardware continues to improve and we polish up the core functionality of our embedded codebases, it is time to start looking at how users will use their hardware in meaningful and fully configurable ways. We have decided to...
This blog post was originally written by FarmBot contributor Rick Carlino. I was recently asked over email about our decision to use Skynet for the Farmbot Project. For those who don’t follow my usual antics, Farmbot is an opensource agricultural robot that aims...
Today the software development team hit a big milestone: bringing FarmBot online and controllable via the web browser. Our software uses the SkyNet.im platform to open up a web socket between the user's browser and the device itself. This allows...
FarmBot needs to be able to communicate with a cloud based server in order to receive instructions and to send back acquired data. SkyNet is an open communications platform and API for the Internet of things that allows us to...
