We've just wrapped up FarmBot Genesis V0.7 documentation! This version (and past versions) are now hosted on our new documentation platform: readme.io. We're really happy with how professional, useful, beautiful, and easy to follow these docs are. Since the last version of...
Good documentation is critical for any open-source project. Be it hardware or software or both, good docs help others understand the design intention, how to navigate the project, and how to go about making modifications. Without good docs, the project...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] We just released a new version of FarmBot's Arduino software that makes acceleration and deceleration smoother and increases the maximum speed of the device. This improvement comes from using an interrupt based architecture rather than a delay based...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] Since we started building the FarmBot web application, our method to synchronize data with the device has been as follows: The user opens up the web application in the web browser. When they do this, all of their...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] We've been a little behind on the documentation train and are trying hard to catch up. We just finished up the docs for FarmBot Genesis V0.6, check em out! Notice that these docs are now hosted on...
[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...
