This blog post was originally written by FarmBot contributor Tim Evers, whom the project sent to attend the FAB10 Conference in Barcelona to learn, network, and share our work here at the FarmBot Project. This weekend I was at the FabFest...
This blog post was originally written by FarmBot contributor Rick Carlino. I was recently asked over email about our decision to use Skynet for the Farmbot Project. For those who don’t follow my usual antics, Farmbot is an opensource agricultural robot that aims...
Since publishing the FarmBot Whitepaper, I have had a wiki for the project using the wikispaces platform. This was initially chosen because it was simple to setup and simple to use because of it's WYSIWYG editor and that it is a completely...
Today the software development team hit a big milestone: bringing FarmBot online and controllable via the web browser. Our software uses the SkyNet.im platform to open up a web socket between the user's browser and the device itself. This allows...
Some people with eagle eyes may have noticed the footer of this website reading: "© 2013-2014 The FarmBot Foundation." What exactly is the FarmBot Foundation you may be asking? Well, it is my envisioned non-profit legal entity that will function...
I get asked all of the time: "What is your goal for the FarmBot Project?" The question usually comes in two contexts. The first, is the context of the project at large, in which case I repeat back our Mission...
We are very excited to announce that Rory Aronson, the FarmBot Project's inventor and organizer has been accepted into the Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Program! The foundation advocates for and funds only open-source projects, and their team is poised to make...
FarmBot needs to be able to communicate with a cloud based server in order to receive instructions and to send back acquired data. SkyNet is an open communications platform and API for the Internet of things that allows us to...
Today we are really excited to have an article about the FarmBot project on WIRED's website! Be on lookout for more great press coming soon! http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/farmbot/
