I think it would be great for us to share photos of our builds so that we can all get inspired by each other’s installations and maybe even learn a thing or two about how best to setup our FarmBots
Note: Let’s keep this topic for showing off our installations and discussing the photos themselves. If you have a hardware related issue or question, please open up a new forum topic.
I’ll start, here is the latest production device in my front yard. We’re going to be doing another planting with it soon to coincide with an upcoming video shoot
Close up of the end-stops, magnetic proximity switches (reed switch and magnet), used extensively in industry. Not really very expensive so you might want to consider including them in the ‘kits’.
The deer are a huge problem around here XD
I cheated with starter plants, but now that they are in the soil, farmbot is keeping them nice and moist! Just harvested my first breakfast saute. Couldn’t be happier! Note to other users: make sure your belts are not too tight. I had problems with skipping and jams until I reduced the tension.
Took me a while to make mine, because I ended up 3D printing a CNC machine (https://www.vicious1.com/) in order to cut out the needed aluminum plates. The aluminum was just scrap I got from someone else, so that saved me a lot too. My first test of the CNC machine was engraving a giant Farmbot logo on the front of the device (facing outwards towards the neighbors ). All custom parts were 3D printed out of scrap recycled plastic, and the rest were bought from the Bill of Materials section (that made it very easy, so thanks!)
Hi Farmbot community!
Here is my rooftop version of your great farmbot design. You see there are so many possible ways to build an own design;) I really appritiate your work and I’m looking forward to see where this project will lead.
Cheers
Nico
Here’s our FarmBot in Victoria, BC. You can see the rain barrel that we will be using to water the FarmBot. We have set up a couple of external webcams to monitor the garden and bot so that I can garden while I travel. Our plans are to integrate a solar panel as well.
We used a high garden bed with a false bottom that separates the bed from the ground because we have some hungry Douglas Fir trees that suck the nutrients and water from all gardens in a 20 m radius.
One of my front-yard bots is growing cabbage, broccoli, chard, beans, and honeydew melons right now. It is on a schedule to water the whole garden at 6am, 2pm, and 10pm. I’ll probably scale that back to watering twice or one time per day, but we’ve been having 100°F (38°C) temperatures here in California the last week, so I wanted to ensure the plants didn’t go thirsty.
I placed the honeydew melons right at the front edge of the bed so that FarmBot can still water them, but they’ll have plenty of room to spill over the bed and sprawl out onto the ground (rather than taking up the whole FarmBot growing area).
Here’s a FarmBot at the Sydney Royal Easter Show (Australia) which I helped setup recently, see it at the show in the Farming of the Future pavilion (until 3rd April 2018):-
These Farmbot is standing in the Netherlands. A special box is made on the side for the water valve. We also placed an electrical power switch on the side, so we can fast make everything power free to work on.
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