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Thank you all for such a fun day. I hope we can all get together again in the near future. With all the imaging that took place, I am really excited to see what kind of mapping and analysis can come out of it. I just created a "sandbox" wiki for us to use [http://www.farmhack.org/tools/covercrop-remote-sensing-imaging](http://www.farmhack.org/tools/covercrop-remote-sensing-imaging) I am downloading the single camera images tonight and will get them sorted for sending of for 3d imaging. We went over to the second site at the woodman farm research station down the road, but the wind was not blowing enough to get a kite up, so that might be a project for another day. I think I may have to get my own rig set up...Perhaps a basic farm hack tool entry could be the basic balloon/kite camera setup from open labs?
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I have started a floating wiki to keep the various lists of tools - we can graduate this to a full tool wiki and/or divide it further as it evolves. I think that it might be useful to divide shop tool kits from field tool kits. I know we have recently refined our tractor tool kit lists on our farm. Here is a link to the ["floating" tool wiki for shop tool kits](http://farmhack.org/wiki/farm-shop-basics)
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It would be really cool do do a couple farm hacker's shop layouts and inventory - we might be able to make some generalizations and help each other improve. I know my layout could certainly be much better. This is where a sketchup library might be really fun to do a few shop layouts.
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Thank you so much for your tour and posting this information - do you think that you might be able to start a tool wiki for the microhydro systems? I think it would be a good repository for folks starting out on projects - I think I mentioned that I think that micro hydro coupled with a gassifier(or whatever other power source is abundant on site) powered water pump(direct drive or electric) might be a way to even out power storage/generation needs in a farm application - ie. water stored in large farm cistern used to store excess power from generator with microhydro to generate on-demand power when needed. I am thinking about hill side storage ponds etc. which could also double for irrigation and animal watering storage. I would love to work up some numbers on a few case studies...
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There was a recent tool posting of just such a machine -[http://www.farmhack.org/tools/small-scale-thresher](http://www.farmhack.org/tools/small-scale-thresher) Here is a link to [another one](http://www.solarcarandtractor.com/*/Products.html)