I don’t know how those folks are doing. I’ve seen that farmbot just released new products though. Last I checked farmbot did open source right.

And thanks for the kind words! I have been pretty sick of working jobs that don’t broadly benefit society. I’m blessed to be working at a beautiful farm on open source tech!

Last I checked, about a year ago, they were still developing, albeit producing documentation at a pretty slow rate.

I think they are still iterating a fair bit on the micro tractor. But overall it seems there was a flurry of activity around 2014 but then it has tapered off.

IMHO, I think they set their sights a bit too high, with the whole construction set. Would have been better to focus on just the tractor first, getting the documentation really hammered out. It is such an essential piece of farm equipment. But as it stands, nothing on their wiki is really viable to contribute to, because you can't really work off of it.

Open source ecology has yearly meetings and projects. There is also have a slack group, iirc.