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Another smaller scale approach on youtube

Hey everyone!

I've been thinking about getting some Fidos produced to help bring down the costs and expand functionality. I'm going to be exploring the design & production options this month and will be going forth with manufacturing when/if I find a way to fund it!

I just posted a link to the 3D image of the plot site on the tool forum http://www.farmhack.org/tools/covercrop-remote-sensing-imaging#forum

I have uploaded images from the balloon run that I had to http://www.hypr3d.com - look forward to sharing the results

I was glad to find out about today's event on remote sensing in Lee, NH. I will be developing hands on courses in sustainable agriculture for UNH so I will post special events that we will be hosting at our research/teaching farms. Thanks for welcoming me to the event. It seemed like a great combination of backgrounds and interests. I look forward to participating with this group more often.

Cheers,

Andrew

Check out my blog post! -> http://rjsteinert.com/farmhacknet-design-development-and-traffic-report-first-few-months

Feel free to discuss here :).

I've been playing with quite a few different temperature sensors over the past few months and I just thought I'd post some kind of summary about it. I may turn this into a wiki entry once I've gotten some feedback, improvements.

#Temperature Sensors Like most sensors, you can break temperature sensors into two different categories: analog and digital.

A timelapse movie from the weekend. A little bit is missing from the day at essex(camera missed the horses in action) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tpy1wWDdZ4

thanks all, dan

Starting with zero Arduino experience just a month ago and many forum searches and mis-soldered connection I have made this progress: the DS18B20 temperature sensor up and running using the OneWire library. (http://www.milesburton.com/?title=Dallas_Temperature_Control_Library). I had some connection problem but that is all worked out now and I get reliable temperature readings. (I realized after I purchased this sensor that I could have got the cheaper and much simpler analog sensor) data logger shield build and working.

On Sunday April 15, 2012 Loius Thiery and I travelled to the Hudson Valley to observe Benjamin Shute build a Fido for a greenhouse on his farm, Hearty Roots. Our end goal is to create a device design and documentation accessible enough for farmers to build Fido themselves. We all knew beforehand that we had not reached our goal yet but we saw value in a trial run to see what we might learn to help direct our design and documentation efforts. During the build we took feedback and photographed Ben's progress.