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Hi FarmBot supporters! We wanted to fill you all in with the progress of our pre-order campaign. So far we've sold 8 FarmBot kits bringing us almost a quarter of the way to our goal!! To the early adopters and believers in this...

Three years ago I had an idea for a new paradigm of food production. Today, that idea is a reality. Introducing FarmBot Genesis: humanity's first open-source CNC farming machine. See how it works and pre-order your FarmBot today at FarmBot.io. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0CiLBM1o8

Many people think that having an expensive piece of farming equipment like FarmBot at your home will never pay for itself - that we would all be better off financially by simply buying fresh veggies at the grocery store. In this post we'll...

We've seen a number of people begin building FarmBots all across the globe. To aid these people in better understanding our documentation and website, we're now offering it in six more languages: Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, French, German, and Spanish! While these translations...

We're gearing up for our big launch in July and wanted to send out a little tease of what's to come. Check out the FarmBot Teaser Trailer: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNkADHZStDE[/embed]

Check out this FarmBot Q&A with Edible Manhattan, Food Loves Tech, and AgFunder! The original article can be found on AgFunder here, and it is copied below. Editor’s Note: Suzanne Zuppello is a journalist with food magazine Edible Manhattan, and has...

FarmBot is 100% open-source, meaning that anyone with an internet connection can look at and download all of our software, hardware plans, and documentation so that they can build and operate their own farming machine. But in reality, will people actually...

About 8 months ago we decided to completely refactor the FarmBot web app. Today I'm please to announce that we've finally finished this system wide re-write and the results are a faster, more stable, more well-written/tested/documented and ready for the future...

We just wrapped up the documentation for FarmBot Genesis V0.9! In this version we added interactive virtual tours each sub-assembly, more detailed assembly instructions and troubleshooting tips, ideas for FarmBot mods and hacks, docs for new tools, and tech specs for every component...

People often want to know how much electricity FarmBot uses. Sometimes they're wondering if FarmBot can be run on solar power (which it can be). Though more often they are actually searching for an answer to this (slightly more complicated) question: "What...

For a while now we've been planning to launch on Kickstarter with two versions of FarmBot Genesis: a "standard" sized device measuring 1.5m wide, 3m long, and 0.75m tall; and an "XL" device measuring 3m wide, 6m long, and 1m tall....