See everyone there! We're looking forward to sharing what we've been working on. For those that can't make it, we're aiming to have a video demo of the new Fido model by the end of the weekend.
After a recent grazer's conference it was clear that a useful "kit" for a FIDO/Apitronics system would be a system with the following set of sensors/switches
This covers the basic worry points with an animal grazing operation - are they secure in the fence? do they have water? and is freezer working to protect the thousands of dollars of product already harvested?
After a breaker tripped in the chicken palace last night, I now have an immediate need to implement a temp sensor alert system. Louis - at this point do you recommend building a FIDO, or is the apitronics close enough that I could piggyback something on top of that (soon)?
Thanks from -11F in Vermont
Hi Everyone,
Anyone in Vermont, NH working on this??
Long time since I worked on the Farm, but I am very involved with Arduino...
I write the http://ArduinoInfo.Info WIKI and I'd like to include a project page on this if any of you want to collaborate on that.
I also run http://yourduino.com and would extend the 5% "Educational" discount to anyone in FarmHack...
Regards, Terry King ...In The Woods in Vermont, USA terry@yourduino.com
Here is a link to a video of a similar project titled "Wireless Sensor Networks for Small Vegetable Farms"
http://www.nesare.org/Dig-Deeper/Pictures-Stories-and-Video/Video-vault/Wireless-sensor-networks-for-small-vegetable-farms
I just came across http://www.harvestgeek.com/ from a seedstock article - http://seedstock.com/2013/02/19/open-source-automated-monitoring-startup-seeks-to-improve-efficiency-on-small-scale-farms/#more-6644
They are also committed to an open hardware design. Good chance to integrate and cross pollinate open source technology...
I couldn't find the link to download the libraries. After digging for a while I found it in a revision of the page from back in September. It looks like it was mistakenly deleted.
I can not seem to find information on what logic shifter to buy. I found an 8-bit shifter on adafruit, is that the right one for this project?
I'm finally getting a chance to look at this thing and I'm stumped on uploading the code. I can see it, but I can't figure out how to move the files to my computer so that I can copy them onto the Arduino. I'm a farmer, not a programmer so please be explicit.
Just curious, how does Fido know what time it is? Does it get this information from the attached cell phone? Or does it need to be programmed by the user?