[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] We've been hard at work adding features to the FarmBot web application (currently available at my.farmbot.cc) as well as the Raspberry Pi software that it communicates with. In this video overview you'll see our web application working live with our latest...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] The FarmBot core team is happy to announce the launch of farmbot-serial, a Ruby library that helps developers interface with FarmBot hardware while abstracting away low level hardware details. It features an event...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth="off" use_custom_width="off" width_unit="on" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] FarmBot V0.7 is now built in my front yard. Documentation will be coming soon, but here are some sneak peak photos! [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth="on" use_custom_width="off" width_unit="on" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off"...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Crowdfunding is our strategy of choice to launch the first ever widely available FarmBot hardware. This has actually been the strategy since I wrote the FarmBot whitepaper about 1.5 years ago and these are the reasons why:...
A common misconception I have heard when I tell people about the FarmBot Project is that being open-source rules out the possibility of making money. Plain and simple, that is absolutely not true. In my opinion, being open-source is the...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Thanks to our friend Tristan Copley Smith for mentioning the FarmBot and OpenFarm projects in his talk at the 2014 Open Hardware Summit! [/et_pb_text][et_pb_video admin_label="Video" src="http://vimeo.com/110682816" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
I've admittedly got a little behind on my documentation and will be catching up over the next week. Today I finished up the documentation for FarmBot Genesis V5 Hardware, or at least what is worth documenting! This round begins to...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] We've been working hard on the design of the manual control page of the FarmBot web app and we want to show you what we've been up to. As we learn more...
As the FarmBot hardware continues to improve and we polish up the core functionality of our embedded codebases, it is time to start looking at how users will use their hardware in meaningful and fully configurable ways. We have decided to...
