FarmBot founder Rory Aronson was featured in the podcast Inspiring Design with Rashan Senanayake. Check out the episode here! "Food. Agriculture. Farming. Words that are vital for a sustainable future and the survival of all living things. Rory Aronson (Social entrepreneur and...
Today we released FBOS v13.2.0 and are announcing some improvements to the web app that were quietly deployed over the last few weeks. Here’s what’s new: set_pin_io_mode() The Lua sandbox now exposes a set_pin_io_mode() function. Thank you @JoeHou for the suggestion and testing! Additional E-stop...
Check out this feature of a FarmBot Genesis build in Heise Online!
Today we deployed a new version of the FarmBot web app as well as an update to our documentation hubs. Here’s what’s new: Documentation search Since switching off of a proprietary documentation platform back in November, our in-house documentation solution...
This month we launched a new documentation hub at oer.farm.bot aimed at providing free open educational resources for teaching FarmBot and related subject matter in K-12 schools. We’re in the early stages of this big project and look forward to working with our educational customers...
Today we’ve got a lot of news to cover for our software and documentation offerings. Here’s what’s new: Setup wizard To help new customers successfully set up their FarmBot quickly, we’ve added a new setup wizard to the app. The setup wizard...
Last week we updated the FarmBot web app and released FBOS v13.0.1. Here’s what’s new: New message broker protocol One of the least tested and problematic parts of FarmBot OS has been the AMQP messaging implementation. Starting with FBOS v13.0.1...
During January we hosted a photo contest on the community forum to find the best photos of FarmBot in 2020. Our two winners of $100 FarmBot shop gift cards are users @socalrob and @STEAM7. Check out their submissions below: @socalrob: "My Farmbot is not...
Today we released a new version of FarmBot OS (v12.3.6) as well as the web app. Here’s what’s new: New Lua functions In our ongoing effort to empower 3rd party developers with a powerful and easy way to extend the...
