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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,...