Hello all, last week we pushed a big update to the FarmBot web app with many improvements. Here’s what’s new: 3D soil height The 3D farm designer now renders an interpolated 3D mapping of the soil’s surface based on the measured or...
Today, on April 21st, 2025, we shut down the OpenFarm servers after being online for a little more than 10 years. The codebase was no longer being maintained and the server infrastructure it was running on was set to no...
Today we’ve got an exciting update for you. Let’s dive in! 3D farm designer beta Originally inspired by video games such as Farmville, the FarmBot farm designer has always been at the core of our user experience, providing a virtual...
Genesis v1.8 update The first batch of FarmBot Genesis and Genesis XL v1.8 kits are now well underway, with the first QA (Quality Assurance) kits set to be finished mid-March. These QA kits are the very first off the production line and...
Yesterday we released a new version of the FarmBot web app. Here’s what’s new: New crop search The FarmBot web app no longer uses OpenFarm to power it’s crop search. While OpenFarm has served us well since the early days of FarmBot,...
You may have noticed by now that last week we released a new version of the FarmBot web app with the following improvements: Dark mode You can now set the app to display with a dark theme using the DARK MODE toggle...
Happy Fall 🍂 We haven’t posted an update in a few months which means we have a lot to share! Today we’re announcing a great new software library for you to make custom FarmBot integrations with, as well as a handful of...
Today we released a new version of FarmBot OS. Here’s what’s new: utc() and local_time() Lua helpers We’ve added two new Lua helpers to make it easier to get the current time (or a component of it) in both UTC...
Today we deployed a new version of the web app. Here’s what’s new: Updated default settings Changed the default MOTOR CURRENT to 90% for the X-axis for all Genesis bots to reduce the potential of stepper driver overheat protection kicking in during...
