FarmBot is in the finals round of the 2015 Hackaday Prize! This means that we're up against nine other projects for a grand prize trip into space or $196,883! For the final round, we we're asked to create a video that: shows a...
The Hackaday Prize is a contest put on by Hackaday.io that seeks to highlight innovation across all types of making and hacking. The theme for this year's contest is: Build Something That Matters. Here is what they have to say on their...
Check out this time lapse of FarmBot watering the Swiss Chard that we planted last week! [video width="1000" height="300" webm="http://farm.bot/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Watering.webm"][/video] You can see how this method of watering is much more efficient than soaking the entire bed with water:...
We are often asked questions relating to FarmBot's yield. "How big of a FarmBot do I need to grow all of my food?" is a common one. While we don't yet have any empirical data to share with you, we have...
FarmBot needs to be designed with manufacturability in mind - not just on an industrial manufacturing scale, but on the individual maker/hacker scale as well. After all, our goal is to empower people to build FarmBots! With this in mind,...
We just wrapped up the documentation for FarmBot Genesis V0.8! In this version, we added bills of materials for each sub-assembly, more detailed and photo heavy assembly instructions for each sub-assembly, and details for setting up the software and electronics....
As part of the process of distinguishing our new company, FarmBot.io, from The FarmBot Project, we're giving ourselves a slight branding update. The FarmBot Project's logomark has always come in a 5-color version. For FarmBot.io, we're going to use the same logo...
Two years ago I published a whitepaper describing an open-source technology called FarmBot and a vision for an Open Food Future. Since then I've been building two global communities to help me carry out this vision: the free-form FarmBot Project and the...
Over the last month, I went on a roadtrip across the United States. It was mostly a vacation, though also an opportunity to hand deliver a V0.8 FarmBot to Rick in Chicago and film him talking about our software in...
