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FarmBot: Open-Source CNC farming (farm.bot)

submitted 8 months ago by KryptonNerd to c/projects

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FarmBot is an open source project aimed at making CNC farming accessible to as many people as possible.

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[–] Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I am really interested in small scale farm automation but not 3k interested! Keep meaning to automate irrigation which would save me a lot of time watering but not cost too much. Cnoc farming would be a fun project though

[–] RoboGroMo 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i feel weird about self promoting but I make a project called the Pigrow which is an open source garden automation project designed to be as cheap and flexible as possible by using a raspberry pi and basic components from ebay or wherever. It's got tools to help you monitor and control the grow environment including various watering tools. It's not as polished as farmbot but under constant development and having new features added all the time, if you want to set up a cheap irrigation automation system then it might be a good option and if not then i'd love to hear what features it'd need for you to consider using it so i can try and add them. More info at !pigrow@slrpnk.net

[–] KryptonNerd 5 points 8 months ago

Looks like an awesome project!

[–] Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Perfect, I will definitely be trying this. I have been looking for an excuse to buy a raspberry pi!

I had a look at the moisture sensors which was really interesting and the waterproofing of the unit which was an ingenious budget idea. I would probably look to use cheaper/ simpler moisture sensors to start with.

One thing I would be interested in is connecting it to a weather forecast service so it doesn’t irrigate when there is rain forecast.

Thank you so much for developing and sharing this.