Hey All,
My name is Matt Zucca and I'm a research assistant for Kelly Bronson at the University of Ottawa. I am glad to have found this forum. We've been searching far and wide for some people who have experience in agriculture, data, and playing around with agricultural tools. At the outset we were looking for people who 'hack' modern tractors and have experience playing with other tools.
I'm looking to start drying herbs without electricity in Florida, and I'm concerned about them reaching a low enough moisture content. Anyone have experience with drying in a humid climate? I'm thinking some kind of solar box with sawdust floor to soak up moisture, but I also want to retain medicinal compounds of herbs. Open to all the ideas!
Thanks for the great plans and advice. The only problems we have run into so far in building this are that the 2" wide caster wheels in the plans do not fit all the way between the grooves of the culvert pipe, making it too hard to turn the washer, and the 3" carriage bolts connecting the culvert to the wooden barrel staves are too long to run smoothly into and out of the chain. We are trying again with 2" bolts and wheels 1" thick. Maybe culvert pipe is different than the one in the plans? Something to look at if you are building this to save some trips to town.
Hello! I'm competing on an entrepreneurship event and I have this idea to make a small, very easy to use, automated hydroponic system, that people can buy and put on their apartment with little effort. I have 3 weeks to make a prototype, and the only thing I know is computer science and I have an arduino! My friend that studies biology will be in my group, and I want to ask for ideas of a small prototype and how the prototype would work. The thing I have in mind is a very small system that holds itself on the floor, and you can grow just a couple plants.
Yes, the title says it all.
Also I came here as I was trying to find a hi-res version of the Farm Hack logo to print out to put on signs for an event we're hosting. So would be very useful if someone could make that available.
This is not a professional matter. In a professional context my problem would be the usual, heating up a green house in a cool climate. Im just curios if anybody heard of cooling mats (or pads) in stead of heating mats? Cause in my apartment I can control humidity, ad som extra lighting and so on. If I would be living in a house I would simply turn the heat of in spare room. But we don´t have a spare room. And since swedish houses are extremly good isolated and heated through central piping system trough out the town.
I found two posts for "instructables" that required payment; thus they are an advertizement for that business. The uniquenes of farmhack is the possibility of community of sharing ínformation and also the possible sale of products: but not the sale of information. The growth of farmhack depends on the availability of free infomation, as a repository.
I suggest you to setup a rule that articles not be an advertizement for sales somewhere else.
Wishing you a wonder-full 2015
Adolfo Aquaculture in Santiago, Chile
If anyone can fix that code section in RECEIVER I would appreciate it - the markdown syntax (which I have not mastered) inexplicably formats some text with very large font and extra line spaces, etc. while the code in TRANSMIT looks OK.
Our orchard is overrun with squirrels who are chewing on bark and roots and doing severe damage. The orchard is fenced which means few predators. There's a bobcat but s/he can't keep up and squirrels are overpopulating. We're having trouble live trapping them and, even if we're successful, aren't sure what to do with them. Catch and release is illegal and we can't find any humane ways of killing them. Thoughts?
Hi RJ,
Great job starting the Fido 2.0 documentation! It's awesome that the price is driven down even further and that you don't need to keep a text message plan.
However, I think it would be better to start a new tool for Fido 2.0. It's solving the same problem but I think that the tech/hardware/build/issues are so different that it is confusing to put both tools under the same umbrella.
What do you think?
--Louis