FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine

Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by lnanek2 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @03:21PM (#6452987)

The design seems fundamentally unscalable due to the rails. I've been to farming areas and fields can go on for miles.

They could have come up with something far more powerful just by sticking it on the front of a tractor and having some tanks/bins for consumables.

Heck, they could have even started from common irrigation systems where you can have 400m of pipe on wheels you roll across the whole field.

I have to wonder how much farmer experience anyone behind this has and if they even looked at current farming equipment before just scaling up a computer printer and sticking a different end on the head.

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Re:FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine by pampa on Friday September 27, 2013 @04:02AM (#6455860)

Dont you see? It's a robot for growing organic weed! Maybe some lettuce on the side.

Here is an idea for a startup: Shipping container weed farm. Order one online, plug in, insert seeds, press button.

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