Hi FarmBot community,This week we deployed new features to the FarmBot web app at my.farm.bot and also released v6.4.12 of FarmBot OS. In this update you’ll find a lot of small improvements that add up to a more consistent and...
One our team members, Connor Rigby, attended ElixirConf this year. Here is his recount of the experience: In early September I attended the largest ElixirConf yet. Jose Valim's opening keynote shows just how the community has grown since 2014. This year,...
Extensibility has always been a goal of the FarmBot project. That’s why we publish all our hardware and software designs online without restriction, and we enable extensibility through the use of Farmware and a publicly accessible REST API. Now we’re...
Hi FarmBot community, Today and over the last few weeks we’ve updated the FarmBot Web App and sent out two new releases of FarmBot OS, v6.4.10 and v6.4.11. Here’s what’s new: Web App Added timestamps to logs sent in the log digest email...
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...
