For a while now we've been planning to launch on Kickstarter with two versions of FarmBot Genesis: a "standard" sized device measuring 1.5m wide, 3m long, and 0.75m tall; and an "XL" device measuring 3m wide, 6m long, and 1m tall....
FarmBot is in the finals round of the 2015 Hackaday Prize! This means that we're up against nine other projects for a grand prize trip into space or $196,883! For the final round, we we're asked to create a video that: shows a...
The Hackaday Prize is a contest put on by Hackaday.io that seeks to highlight innovation across all types of making and hacking. The theme for this year's contest is: Build Something That Matters. Here is what they have to say on their...
Check out this time lapse of FarmBot watering the Swiss Chard that we planted last week! [video width="1000" height="300" webm="http://farm.bot/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Watering.webm"][/video] You can see how this method of watering is much more efficient than soaking the entire bed with water:...
We are often asked questions relating to FarmBot's yield. "How big of a FarmBot do I need to grow all of my food?" is a common one. While we don't yet have any empirical data to share with you, we have...
FarmBot needs to be designed with manufacturability in mind - not just on an industrial manufacturing scale, but on the individual maker/hacker scale as well. After all, our goal is to empower people to build FarmBots! With this in mind,...
