The Farm Hack River of Activity

In 50 characters or less...	Posted by	Post date	Last comment	Number of Comments
DIY Solar water heater	permies	Monday, July 4, 2016 - 9:21am	Friday, March 9, 2018 - 7:37am	1
Enclosed Aerated Composting -Shipping Container	lst1012	Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 10:03pm	Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 10:03pm	0
Rock picker	HoffAppFarm	Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 7:59am	Friday, May 27, 2016 - 8:24am	1
request software Perfect money checker software	reza2016	Monday, May 23, 2016 - 4:22am	Monday, May 23, 2016 - 4:22am	0
SmartPatch - Intelligent Allotment	Donal	Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 6:12am	Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 10:16pm	1
Using peer-to-peer lending to support smallholder farmers all over the world	Brian Powell	Saturday, April 2, 2016 - 9:55pm	Saturday, April 2, 2016 - 9:55pm	0
Farm Hack in Todmorden West Yorkshire UK	Incredible Farm	Monday, March 7, 2016 - 6:21am	Friday, November 10, 2017 - 2:11am	1
What benefits can wireless bring to farmers?	Donal	Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 6:55pm	Friday, February 26, 2016 - 4:20pm	4
University of Michigan Farm Hack	jdperez	Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 11:44am	Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 11:44am	0
Other Italian based farmers around?	Marta Di Pierro	Saturday, February 6, 2016 - 4:46am	Monday, February 8, 2016 - 4:12pm	1

Submitted by pineandbramble on Sun, 04/08/2018 - 2:56pm

would love to pick your brain! my husband and i are in the midst of putting together the very rough draft for a maker-space in our community. my "half" will be a focus on lost-arts and farming, and i would love any nuggets of wisdom from you!

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Submitted by EdMallon on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 2:47pm

Just came across this interesting talk on the different growth rates with the same amounts of light spread out over different time periods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uLwapyCUo

With all the different I2C light sensors out there, LED level controllers like the one he describes at the end of the video would be relatively easy to build with an Arduino. Especially if you could live without the blue-tooth functionality (it: to change the set level for a different crop, you would need reload the logger from your laptop)

Submitted by dorn on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 2:04pm

It would be great to point one of the Farm Hack tools at the excellent documentation already started for the project. I think it would be a good project to profile at the GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) as well. Look forward to seeing how this project might crosspollinate with Perdue OATS ISOBlue project.

Submitted by Farcountry on Sun, 03/11/2018 - 11:14am

Hi. Working on modifying my rototiller to raise beds for tomato beds. Got a disc ridger as well to combine with rototiller but I like your concept. Any chance of some concept sketches of your layout?

Submitted by JerryJames on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 7:37am

This idea is the best idea because if there is no gas so the solar Energy Spark is used, I personally have experienced on This Solar Water Heater

Submitted by socrates on Tue, 03/06/2018 - 5:53am

Hi Darren, I work at Waag (in Amsterdam) and participate in the digitalsocial.eu project. Very briefly, I'm working on how bottom-up sustainability related initiatives (with a particular interest in food) can be better helped and sustained by digital tools. We're inventorying what are the challenges and what avenues seem fruitful. Would be most interested in doing a workshop on this (possibly in Wales). I'm also working on ways to support 'open source' types of initiatives. If that resonates, could you please drop me an email on (my first name) @ (my organisation name) . org? I'm also in touch with the Open Food Network UK and I'm involved in a food cooperative myself.

Best, Socrates

Submitted by EdMallon on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 1:29pm

I'd be happy to put a note about the Pearls in the tools section here. But thought I would check the forum first to see if anyone was actually interested before I did something like that.

I will look around http://forum.goatech.org and see what the discussions are like. I'll sign on if there's something I can make a positive contribution towards. Keep in mind that our work is pretty tightly focused on hydrology, rather than Ag.

Submitted by dorn on Thu, 03/01/2018 - 10:36am

Great contribution! There is a dynamic Farm IOT conversation that I would love to loop you into. Check out http://forum.goatech.org . We are working to link the Farm Hack forums into new tools like Discourse and riot group chat to facilitate exchange of ideas. Your data loggers would be a great tool to document in the tools section of the site- which will also make it easier to find. Look forward to next posts!

Submitted by franpermanentculture on Mon, 02/19/2018 - 10:37pm

Hi Adam, I'm really interested in your project, as I'm designing a post harvest shed in a permaculture farm and it would be awesome to get some inspiration from your idea. How can I access the drawings? thanks, Fran

Submitted by og farmer chris on Fri, 02/16/2018 - 4:41pm

I would like to get plans for this bed shaper. How do I?

Submitted by FarmerMark on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 5:44pm

So I just ran my first samples through this thresher today. Overall it worked pretty good. I'll see if I can post pics somehow. It threshed the hulless barley pretty well with the wood flails. The spokes did pretty good on the beans as did small chain. Now to finish the fanning mill.....

Submitted by flipping goat farm on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 12:13pm

This is great! What seed are you using? I'm trying to figure a way to plant birdfoot trefoil. Thanks

Submitted by Mountaineer300zx on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 5:46pm

How can you download documents and files

Submitted by Mountaineer300zx on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 5:46pm

How can you download documents and files

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Submitted by Rudolf on Tue, 01/09/2018 - 12:04am

I'd like to help collaborate if possible. This style keeps coming up in my mind and seems to have a ton of possibilities in terms of fully or semi-automated field work. I have little to no experience with farming or programming, but I am good at building things. I've got a VERY small city plot in the works, but would love to build a small scale version to prove the concept and learn the programming aspect. For my more hobby-style setup I envision solar panels, batteries, and a drive motor on two or four wheels (think 2D farmbot on wheels). I'm curious where you are with the concept now.

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 5:59pm

@sam_uk - I help out with maintaining Fido http://farmhack.org/tools/fido-temperature-alarm-sends-text-messages

Submitted by sam_uk on Sun, 01/07/2018 - 7:03pm

And that's why you use Open Source

What's your Foss project?

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Submitted by tricksbite on Sun, 12/31/2017 - 5:30am

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Submitted by Joel_BC on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 6:45pm

Have you looked into what Marcin Jakubowski and associates are doing? Here's a link: http://opensourceecology.org/marcin-jakubowski/

It's truly a wide-ranging, radical undertaking of design, fabrication, proto-typing and testing. Much of it is food-production related equipment. I believe there are some other websites connected with their work, so do some Googling on Marcin's name.

They may have affiliates in Canada by now, so contact them and ask. Good luck.

Submitted by FarmerMark on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 9:39am

Thanks for your insight and target rpms. I will factor them. Cheers!

Submitted by FarmerMark on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 9:38am

Good point. Thanks! I hope to get into this in the next couple of days. I'll try to post some pics.

Submitted by luseedhead on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 8:38am

After waiting some time to forget the instructions, i recently built a mill and found the instructions worked well. I modified the design a tiny bit to use stock cast iron grinding burrs from CS Bell. I also used slightly over sized key stock for the auger to improve the feed action of the auger. In the end, with some scavenging of materials, it cost $80 in parts and took 15.5 hours to build. There was an additional 6.5 hours of wood working and testing getting it hooked up to the bicycle PTO. The mill works better than my 1920s CS Bell. There is less friction and more precision in the facing of the burr plates. The result is that everyone (meaning even people other than me who rarely grind flour on my mill) noticed it is easier and faster to make flour with the new mill than it was with the old CS Bell. The old record of 40seconds/# for wharthog wheat has fallen!

Submitted by luseedhead on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 8:25am

The gear reduction between the exercycle and the thresher drum is not very important, and can be adjusted easily as an afterthought. Exercycles come with all sorts of gear ratios between the cranks and the flywheel. The thresher drum will work best at somewhere around 200-300 rpm. Too slow and the grain won't get threshed. Too fast and the wobble in the axis will shake the machine apart. Some wobble, remember, is good, as it shakes the seeds down. The bike chain part of the transmission will be happy with a larger ratio; the v-belt part of the transmission will be happy (there will be less friction) with a smaller ratio. In general, the flywheel stores more energy if it is turning faster (kinetic energy increases with the square of speed), so there are some reasons to have a large ratio to the flywheel (ex. 4:1 increase), and then a small ratio to the drum (ex. 1:1.2 decrease). I hope this is helpful!

Submitted by luseedhead on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 8:09am

There is no bill of materials. There are so many materials substitutions and adaptations (like plywood for 1X pine) that what i recommend is printing out the instructions (pdf link below) and then on each page of the instructions write in the materials you will use. If you plan to acquire the materials all at once you can collate the pages to make a master list. This exercise will also help you get familiar with each step in case modifications you make in your design (example: substituting 3/4" plywood for 1" pine) cause changes in dimensions and other possible changes in the instructions which will need to be penciled in to your instructions. Incidentally, i also use the instruction sheets to make other notes and to keep track of time and cost for each step.

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