Skip to content
Pre-order Genesis or Genesis XL v1.8 for Spring to lock in savings
Pre-order Genesis or Genesis XL v1.8 and save big

Blog

  • January 20, 2014

    Controlling FarmBot Stepper Motors

    [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Woo! We just got our custom Raspberry Pi and Arduino software to control our stepper motors! Check out this short video demonstrating the functionality! [/et_pb_text][et_pb_video admin_label="Video" src="http://youtu.be/BQ48xvOactY" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

    Read now
  • September 19, 2013

    The FarmBot Whitepaper

    Published on September 19th, 2013, by Rory Landon Aronson, Read through to learn about the FarmBot technology and vision as well as details of FarmBot Genesis, the first FarmBot currently in development and slated for a crowdfunded launch in 2014. Email questions...

    Read now
  • July 24, 2013

    Precision Farming

    Agriculture equipment has been steadily becoming more accurate and precise with the advent of GPS autopiloting systems, short range radio location systems, and computer vision. All of these technologies are essentially augmenting the traditional free-driving tractor on wheels. Rather than...

    Read now
  • July 24, 2013

    Combining Efficiencies

    Food production is all about efficiency. How can I produce more food with less water, fertilizer, labor, etc? If we look at two farming paradigms, the monocrop and the polycrop, we can see where each one excels in efficiency, where...

    Read now
  • July 24, 2013

    The TRAG Systems Era

    For two and a half years from when I had the initial idea, FarmBot went by the name of TRAG systems, or Tracked Agriculture. During this time, I completed many hours of leg work including research, brainstorming, sketching, modeling, prototyping,...

    Read now
  • July 24, 2013

    A Stroke of Genius

    Hi! This is Rory, sharing with you the story of inspiration for the FarmBot project and how it got to where it is today. It all started my 3rd year of college (2011) while at Cal Poly in San Luis...

    Read now