FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine

Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by malandrew on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:44PM (#6451929)

Very cool. It would be awesome to automate as much as possible of permaculture and everything you need to create small communities that can survive entirely off the grid in a way that affords people plenty of free time.

People who did this might want to also check out the Global Village Construction Set:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Constructio...

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Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by VikingCoder on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:37PM (#6452310)

I'm reminded of this, my favorite TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest....

He talks about turning a de-forested area back into a rain forest. It's like an algorithm for sustainable living.

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Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by timdiggerm on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:09PM (#6452100)

off the grid, yet with a powered robot?

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Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by Zikes on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:34PM (#6452285)

Plenty of off-grid power options, like solar, wind, and water.

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Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday September 26, 2013 @03:57PM (#6453225)

And gasoline.

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Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by Zikes on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:16PM (#6454446)

Yep, that does power plenty of tractors and tills already.

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