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Hi FarmBot community, At the end of last week we published FarmBot OS v8! Congratulations to our main OS developer, @connor for getting us to this huge milestone!! This major new release brings a big set of new features and stability improvements to...

Hey FarmBot community, Today we deployed a handful of new features to the FarmBot web application, which you can now see and use at my.farm.bot. Later this week we'll be releasing FarmBot OS v8 and all-new documentation as well, so stay...

Ever since we started the FarmBot project, our software source code has been openly available on GitHub while our core development workflows and project management has primarily happened in private.While this practice served us well for a few years, we're now ready to open up...

It's been another busy quarter for us at FarmBot and we've seen a tremendous response to the launch of FarmBot Express. Hardware is not the only thing that's new at FarmBot, though. We've also made substantial changes to our software and...

Hello FarmBot community, Today we have a big software update for you! Some things you may have seen already because they were deployed to the app several weeks ago, some things were just deployed today, and yet other features will...

Over the last few weeks we've added a ton of new and updated information to our hardware, software, and even meta documentation hubs. This new content reflects the many features we've added to the web app, and brings together learnings from the community all into one place. Here are...

Hello FarmBot community, On Wednesday we deployed a new version of the FarmBot web app with a ton of usability improvements and a handful of new features. Let’s take a look at what’s new: Mobile friendly pages! The Sequences, Regimens,...

In celebration of the Spring Equinox, our talented designer Claire Dierksen (maker of all the plant icons you see in the FarmBot web app) has teamed up with Apple Design Award winning developer Ryan McLeod to launch today Every Plant, Ever, a sticker pack for iOS!...

Hi everyone, Here's an update of what we've been up to the last few months and where we're heading: Software Variables The vast majority of our software development efforts since October have been to build out the much-anticipated variables feature....

Hi FarmBot community,This week we deployed new features to the FarmBot web app at my.farm.bot and also released v6.4.12 of FarmBot OS. In this update you’ll find a lot of small improvements that add up to a more consistent and...

One our team members, Connor Rigby, attended ElixirConf this year. Here is his recount of the experience: In early September I attended the largest ElixirConf yet. Jose Valim's opening keynote shows just how the community has grown since 2014. This year,...