Cultivar's RainCloud is an irrigation system and web app platform designed for convenient, intelligent and networked water management.
We are running a Kickstarter campaign in September to support the project and would love your help!
Many beginning small farmers and urban farmers are often without secure long-term land tenure, making it difficult to invest in critical infrastructure needed to allow the farm to grow and operate efficiently. This functional prototype was built with grant money from the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission and is currently in use at ECO City Farms, in Edmonston MD, a not-for-profit/educational four-season urban farm where it doubles as a teaching kitchen for youth nutrition programs.
Farm Hack Davis – Come meet up for beers and conversation with fellow farmers and tinkerers at Plainfield Station outside of Davis!
Sunday, September 15th, 4–7 P.M., Plainfield Station
Hi, There is now a new Cell phone switch availble that you can Now Plug straight into a Mains Socket and the Plug your Electric Fenncet Into using a Universal Socket.
On Call can Switch the Energisor OFF and another Telephone Call can Switch the Electric Fencer back On
Alternatively you can operate the system via S,M.S
Comes a complete system including plugs and leads and the web site link is http://www.gsmswitch.com
Cost is approximently under 100 USD
GitHub.com, the amazing repository free repository for all things Open Source, now has support for showing previews of STL files. Check out their blog post on this new feature. I'll be thinking about ways we can further integrate with GitHub, but until then there's nothing stopping us from uploading 3D models to GitHub for free and linking to them from the Farm Hack wiki pages.
We are holding a workshop in Washington on Sept 13,14, 15. We are trying to spread the word as it promises to be something quite special.
We're going to the Common Ground Fair. We're looking for suggestions and possibly some helpers too. Let us know if you'll be there. Let us know if you have something to share.
We'll definitely have flyers and some posters and some movies. Hopefully we'll have something from APITRONICS. Maybe we'll get someone from PublicLaboratory to come vist as well.
Let us know if you've got something to show or you could help us by sitting at the table from time to time so we can walk around too!
thanks, dan
Hope this information helps people
For those of you who don't know about it already, the Digital Public Library of America is a relatively new project that brings together the rich collections of libraries, archives, and museums from across the US (including Cornell), making them freely available to the world.
http://www.elomestari.fi/english/crawler.htm I'm not sure why they do not put the video on the web, but it is great to watch. Battery powered; steering and acceleration is controlled by the feet pushing on levers.