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knowledge of old seed cleaners?

Hi good people - does anyone have knowledge of old seed cleaners? This gem is a prototype we are playing around with to build a modern version - J. Bean, 1851, Montville (Maine maybe?). Basic online search yielded no info. There are instructions still in tact on which sieve to use for the particular type of seed cleaned, and how much to open or close the damper... but much of the frames and screens have been replaced and reworked, thus losing the corresponding numbers.

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Overview

Just to give a quick overview of this project, since it might not be obvious at first glance:

FarmOS is a web-based farm management and record keeping system I've been working on. It is open source, so you can download the code and set it up on your own server, make changes, contribute back to the project, etc.

The code is currently available on GitHub: http://github.com/farmier/farm

I will eventually move the canonical repository to drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/farm

Current status

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Sending WiFi to the other side of the farm for under $200, Part 1

When researching new designs for the Fido project, Dogi and I started wondering if it would be practical to utilize WiFi instead of going through the cellphone towers the original Fido design depended on. Programming a Raspberry Pi so that an App can easily connect the Raspberry Pi to a WiFi network is not something that had really been done before so I needed a strong guarantee that doing so would result in good solution for connecting to the Internet.

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New Topic Type, the "Problem Statement"

Hi all, There has been much discussion around "problem statements" being an important part of our community process so I set up a new Topic Type called "Problem Statement" and added a shortcut to creating a Topic labeled with that Topic Type (see screenshot). I like the idea of encouraging people to enter their problem statements because up to this point, FarmHack.net has been just sort of collection of solutions. Encouraging people to submit problems could spur innovation.

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Starting work on software

I finally found information regarding the rebuilding of the kernel on the BBB (Beagle Bone Black) - turns out its a Debian Wheezy distribution. The basic information on doing this is at http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black. The instructions pretty much matched reality (with alterations for the directory structure I'm doing my development in).

Note that, as of this writing, I have not tested the build kernel - I can't seem to find all the MicroSD chips I used to have. Sigh.