R.J. Steinert

Is that $70 per unit as in you would have to buy 4 or 5 to relay them to your house? One idea that is not exactly the intended purpose of [Fido](http://farmhack.org/tools/fido-greenhouse-monitoring-text-message-alerts) but... It would detect an unusual spike in temperature from a fire and send you a text message. Though, at the point it's detecting heat it's probably too late. It would be better to take the Fido design and repurpose it with an [MQ2 Smoke Detector Shield](http://www.amazon.com/MQ2-Smoke-Detector-Shield-Arduino/dp/B005IDBDBO). A text message might be too subtle of an alarm, I wonder what LOUD alarms there that play well with Arduino.

No real documentation yet but I added the repo to Farm Hack's Git Hub account. It will be a while until that big file download (I'm on Ghana speed). See it here-> https://github.com/FarmHack/Encyclopedia-Of-Practical-Farm-Knowledge Or here -> http://prose.io/#FarmHack/Encyclopedia-Of-Practical-Farm-Knowledge

Hehe, those are some clever techniques. I hear that copying and pasting into "notepad.exe" is a handy way for Windows users to accomplish this. For plain text editors on Mac, I use Sublime2 for writing code and iAwriter for writing blog posts, both of which have syntax highlighting for Markdown format which is cool. It looks like Archive.org has choked on that Doc format, there isn't the usual many-formats-to-choose-from :(. I'm downloading the big 500mb doc right now. I'm going to experiment with transferring it to plain text files with Markdown syntax which would work well on GitHub. Also, it will be a good chance to try out some of the other tools on GitHub for collaboration.

Woohoo! I see their robot hasn't converted it into any other format yet. It may be because it's a huge file or it may be because it's in Word format. Let's give the robot a day or so to see if it can work its magic on that file.

No idea yet. I've only seen the file on your computer once or twice. I'll need to look through the file to think about how we should structure a digital copy of it. In case you didn't know, anyone can add a document to the [Community Texts](http://archive.org/details/opensource) section on Archive.org, no approval process required.