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,...
We just wrapped up the documentation for FarmBot Genesis V0.8! In this version, we added bills of materials for each sub-assembly, more detailed and photo heavy assembly instructions for each sub-assembly, and details for setting up the software and electronics....
As part of the process of distinguishing our new company, FarmBot.io, from The FarmBot Project, we're giving ourselves a slight branding update. The FarmBot Project's logomark has always come in a 5-color version. For FarmBot.io, we're going to use the same logo...
Two years ago I published a whitepaper describing an open-source technology called FarmBot and a vision for an Open Food Future. Since then I've been building two global communities to help me carry out this vision: the free-form FarmBot Project and the...
Over the last month, I went on a roadtrip across the United States. It was mostly a vacation, though also an opportunity to hand deliver a V0.8 FarmBot to Rick in Chicago and film him talking about our software in...
We've just wrapped up FarmBot Genesis V0.7 documentation! This version (and past versions) are now hosted on our new documentation platform: readme.io. We're really happy with how professional, useful, beautiful, and easy to follow these docs are. Since the last version of...
Good documentation is critical for any open-source project. Be it hardware or software or both, good docs help others understand the design intention, how to navigate the project, and how to go about making modifications. Without good docs, the project...
