The Farm Hack River of Activity
Stream of Forum Topics
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Alcohol Fuel Crops and related equipment to make fuel grade Ethanol. | tomsetchel@gmail.com | Monday, January 26, 2015 - 9:44am | Monday, January 26, 2015 - 9:44am | 0 | |
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Sprocket | TwoOnion | Friday, January 23, 2015 - 10:01pm | Friday, January 23, 2015 - 10:01pm | 0 | |
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Org Call 1/22/15 | DGrover | Friday, January 23, 2015 - 9:49am | Friday, January 23, 2015 - 9:49am | 0 | |
| Petitions to U.S. Copyright Office to Allow Exemption for Farmers, etc to Unlock Equipment Programming | DGrover | Friday, January 16, 2015 - 3:00pm | Friday, January 16, 2015 - 3:00pm | 0 | ||
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Org Call 1/15/15 | DGrover | Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 8:10pm | Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 8:10pm | 0 | |
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Thoughts on "The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things" | R.J. Steinert | Sunday, January 11, 2015 - 6:38pm | Sunday, January 11, 2015 - 6:38pm | 0 | |
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Org Call Notes 1/8/15 | DGrover | Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 8:44pm | Friday, January 9, 2015 - 12:01pm | 1 | |
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I found two posts for "instructables" that require payment; they are advertizement for that business not farmhack | adolfo | Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 11:06am | Friday, January 9, 2015 - 11:36am | 1 | |
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Great Idea | jennajane | Thursday, January 1, 2015 - 2:55pm | Thursday, January 1, 2015 - 2:55pm | 0 | |
| Young Carpenters? | Joel_BC | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 6:18pm | Sunday, January 18, 2015 - 6:28pm | 1 |
Sorry it has taken so long for me to reply I have been kind of busy here. I just uploaded a short video to my youtube. This will hopefully be a little more descriptive. I should have some more videos and pictures up soon let me know if you think this might be useful, or if you have any ideas on what would be more useful.
Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhWnQGCwB7s&feature=youtu.be and you can also find it on my hackaday page.
Do you have any addresses of any company ,can sell barley peeling and cleaning ? pls. guide me, i will be very thankful. where the design documents ? Best Regards A.J note : aaahsj@gmail.com
Hi John - I've been working on the Fido project that focuses on sensing temperature and sending text messages when a temperature is detected that is outside the bounds a farmer sets. I'm interested in the need to have more than one temperature sensor and also data logging. We're thinking about adding that to the Fido design but I'm wondering more what certain people use the historic data of multiple temperature sensors for. It may sound like a stupid question and I can guess what you folks might want that data for but I'm interested in hearing it from the folks who need it. Would you mind describing for me what you plan on doing with that data? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks!
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I would recommend taking the design documents to a local fabrication shop to get a quote. For barley you will want the hammer design modification for sure (rather than the impact huller design which is fine for oats etc.). The second stage of winnowing the hulls and cleaning the seed is also important to consider. A clipper seed cleaner properly set up can get you most of the way there. I expect it could all be built for less than $2000. If a fabricator gets setup to do a small production run of kits, the cost could be substantially less. If you do build a version, please post your results and costs!
Hi I need to buy it to peel barley grains. how much will cost me ? Best Regards AJ
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Hi John - did you see this related post today? http://farmhack.net/forums/20-diy-datalogger-waterproof-housing
Even if its my first time to visit this site i am very happy and thankful , thank you for sharing an informative ideas i really appreciate your kindness is such a great day to be here.
I was suggesting that Fido 2.0 become a different tool entry - keeping the namesake, "Fido", is fine by me.
I think the reorganization you did is a definite improvement but it doesn't resolve that the tool forums are pushed together and so technical questions or ideas all end up in the same place despite the build, hardware, and architecture being so different.
But in the spirit of Dorn's comment, I think linking between the tools to express lineage and similarities will also be useful. It would be cool to link Fido 1.0 to Rover (a direct variant) and then to link to Fido 2.0 too but as an alternative solution (if you have WiFi range).
@Louis Are you suggesting that the "Fido 2.0" design become a different project under another name or that there should be "Fido 1.0" and "Fido 2.0" Tool entries on FarmHack.net?
@Dorn I agree that there's some organizing that needs to be done on those tools. Currently we have the ability to create new Wiki pages and hyperlink to them. We should maybe try using that approach for now to figure out how we might program more tools on FarmHack.net to make that process somehow more useful/easier.
I organized the Fido tool a bit more today to try to make it easier for users to find what they are looking for.
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I think Louis makes a good point. I have been thinking about the same thing with the roller crimper tool and the iFARM tool. The original tool wiki posted has been lost with new approaches that confuses the post more than clarifies the progression and relationships. I think it would be great to have the concept of branching so that each of the new tools could be edited and modified on their own merit, but the evolution and heritage flows through. It is also an important part of providing credit for previous work too.
I also think that as some of these tools are used together that the concept of a meta-tools or "kits" becomes important. Some tools are a new organization of other sub-tools or components. For example, a "small scale grain production kit" is a tool that I will be developing. It is a tool that will assemble a number of other tools together in a particular combination of hardware, decision support software and spreadsheets to solve a particular economic and technical problem. Each individual tool will also have a tool wiki, or even additional sub wikis but they also have a relationship together in how the operate. Open shops enables some custom grouping of tools, but I think the ability to segment and custom organize groups of tools to address particular problems would make the content more meaningful.
This type of tagging with defined functional relationships would also enable us to group many of the tools that are attempting to solve similar problems, like data logging and automation, prone position weeding/harvesting, roller crimping, climate control etc...
I wonder if some visual navigation of tool relationships might be in the future...
Finally got a custom built kernel to boot off the SD card. Its a bit awkward due to all the ssh dancing and IP address changing, but it appears to work.
So, I now have a working and (I hope) stable development system. Time to take a baseline backup and start work on the device driver changes. Also have to get the debugging environment set up.
Hi John,
I hope wisconsingarlicfarm responds quickly to your request. I have also sent a private e-mail along - of course it is a busy time of year for all of us! You can send private e-mails to other posters by clicking on their profile and the clicking the contact tab. Good luck! Garlic scapes just came in on our farm yesterday...
I will post some pictures and a video soon on the hackaday site. I will let you know when I have them up.
Hi jlbrian7 - Measuring electricity is definitely an important application. If the electricity is out and we detect it, it could provide an early warning before greenhouses overheat or refrigerators thaw. I've been looking at the Grove Electricity sensor + GrovePi to accomplish this. I checked out your hackaday project page. How would one hook it up to an electrical system to monitor electricity?
I've added some new bits - useful stuff for the homestead or small farm.
Don't forget, I want suggestions. So please pass relevant info & links my way. You can use this thread for that.
Thanks for posting the link. I wasn't aware of Bellspray's products.
I've assembled and tested the BeagleBone Blacks, and soldered together the XBee and GPS units for each of three base stations.
The next step (and a rather big one at that) is to download all the kernel sources and find the serial device driver so I can modify it to perform very high resolution timing. Then I have to build and test, and repeat until I get it right.
Yup, all the rest of our greenhouse tables sit on saw horses too. I had a spot for this one to be a bit more permanent, and with 300lbs of sand in it, I didn't want to take it down. the pea gravel probably works too, for me I was trying to create a large thermal mass to avoid temperature fluctuations. To add a circuit like this to my microprocessor costs me the price of a relay and temperature probe $25 for the fancy ones, and then I can log the temperature in the table, know how long the heating coil is on under different temperature settings, and patch it into the alarm in case the temps get too high or too low. Plus I am a bit of an Arduino geek.
Post up a picture or two to help out others that are thinking about doing the same thing.
Jenna
Thanks for the comment and for all your contributions. I have a huge backlog of posts waiting to get put up - both upgrades to existing tools and several new tools. I hope to get at least a few up in the next couple of weeks. It seems there is a slowdown in contributions each spring (at least from those from the temperate northern hemisphere!). We are really hoping that the upgrade to the web site this summer will make it easier to integrate other sites into Farm Hack and vise versa, and also lower barriers to using the site.
I have extensive experience modifying pump and CO2 backpack sprayers for applying treatments to research plots which could easily be applied to small-scale crop-production or mixed planting conditions (GH, trellis, field). I mainly dealt with R&D Sprayer (Bellspray Inc). You could check out their site for ideas if you're not already familiar with them.
Thanks for mentioning this study. I reviewed the project report and outreach materials while preparing my grant application. The issue I have with the backpack sprayers is that they are primarily spot sprayers and it isn't really possible to use them in a way which results in uniform application rates. Plus, it is slow going, even with two nozzles on a wand if you are spraying a trellised crop like tomatoes which may be 8+ ft. tall.
Based on our farm experience with both Solo backpack and caddy style sprayers, we have determined that for us it will make sense to build a boom type sprayer that we can pull through the tunnel.
I'm all for farmers choosing who they share their data with. I imagine the farmers participating in a data collection program like Monsanto's Climate Pro are worried that their data is going to be sold to the highest bidder and that highest bidder might not have their best interests in mind. After all it is Monsanto's legal obligation to maximize returns to their investors. Has anyone here read the Climate Pro "Terms Of Service" (TOS)?
A while back I wrote up some ideas on a similar system. It was inspired by Abe Collin's presentation on Grow Clean Water. It's a lofty goal but something cool to aim for.
When we integrate ... - Project management, per field/facility, what particular people/objects need to do when with what equipment (includes automation schedules) - Budget management - Equipment inventory/management - Automated and manually entered environmental data
We can do ... - Smarter computer generated Nutrient Management suggestions - automated generation of reports for taxes and certifications - alerts when trouble is brewing
That's some pretty cool stuff. I'll be keeping an eye out for updates!
Bill, There is lots going on with dialogs with GreenStart's ( www.greenstartnh.org )feed and seed initiative and building on UVM's oilseed calculator and integrating with gocrop, DNDC and others. Here is a link to a wiki I have started but sandboxed until more developed. http://farmhack.net/tools/universal-adaptive-management-software#wiki
We have an event coming up to focus on systems integration and how that fits with the unifying software concept. I have a huge backlog to post - and hope to get up on the site within the next week!
Somehow I just found this thread. Are you all still out there? I've continued developing and testing my tool, and I recently had a really good conversation with Todd Jones about his project on the planning side of things. I'd love to talk to anyone who's still thinking about / working on these things.
I think most of us hate the price of expensive repairs to worn parts and the down time that goes with those repairs. I have been using a product called RVS and it actually rebuilds worn metal parts while they are in place and working. I just add it to the lubrication and the compounds micro-weld loose metal fragments in the lube back to the worn surface and form a ceramic layer that lasts longer than the metal pieces themselves. Crazy stuff man! Any place that has metal to metal contact and lubrication can benefit from this super goo. Fix your bearings, cylinder walls, squeaky parts and pumps! This stuff saves down time and money which we all need to keep on keeping on. Check it out at www.greenerplanetenterprises.com
Wow Bill! These look great. Let's find some time to connect on the phone. I've already followed up with an email. Talk to you soon!