Farm Hack Intervale / Essex 2012 - Vermont and New York

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

To put some perspective on the scope that 3D printing will have on our lives, here's an article from The Economist discussing this third industrial revolution.

Click here for the article

Here are a few points I found especially interesting in the article:

"The factory of the future will focus on mass customisation—and may look more like those weavers’ cottages than Ford’s assembly line."

I have the missing passport from Belgium! If you're looking for it give me a call at (802)233-5465! Rob

After our conversations this weekend, I was wondering if it might be appropriate to develop some primary tool goals (like low cost egg washers, root washers, combines, seed cleaners, cultivating tractors, flash freezers, or micro pasteurizers) with performance goals and as a community raise prizes for successful designs to give a little boost and some recognition to the folks out there who take on these important tasks. Prizes could be tools, food or other services if not cash.

Our aim is to improve the function, safety and durability, of the existing root washer tool we surveyed at the Farm Hack Intervale meet up. We would also like to reduce the up front cost. We were very lucky to have input from the farmers who use this washer on a regular basis and at high volume. The improvements we propose fit into a few basic categories.

I think I might've forgotten it over there during lunch on Sunday - let me know if you've found it!

Pedal Power and Micro Hydro

This is a quick summary of my talk and shop tour at the Farm Hack event Sunday April 29, 2012

Pedal Power Pedal power is useful for off-grid and small scale applications.

our website and video: Pedal Power Engineering also check out: Maya Pedal

Here's a topic for everyone to place their notes in the comments :).

This system will track objects like cattle, tractors and equipment on the farm. But it is more than just a tracker option. It can monitor activity and be used to transmit sensor data about the objects being tracked. The technology includes 3 moveable GPS anchor points which communcate with Beaglebone ARM 8 devices which are also Zigbee enabled.