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I posted a wiki to capture FarmHack design principles. I am sure several of these could be consolidated and articulated further - It would be great to also link to examples of each criteria in use with FarmHack tools and to reference them as we document our tools and design choices. Here is the link to the building design principles wiki http://www.farmhack.org/wiki/design-principles-farmhack A good similar discussion can be found here http://www.openstructures.net/pages/2#vraag-1a and here http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html
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I wonder if we might implement a rating on completeness of documentation as a method to keep the barrier to entry low, but also encourage the idea that the aim is for enough information to be shared that anyone could replicate the tool. There are a lot of tools posted right now with fairly limited descriptions or images. In some cases that may be all that is needed, but I think an open rating system may set expectations for where the community would like to see the documentation move to. I think that we might also add a note in the tool template that in that it is OK to appeal to the community for help in further documenting tools.
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Hi there Wyatt, So glad you found farm hack. I just came across the http://milkingsystem.com/ myself. It is very exciting to reduce the fixed overhead costs of traditional dairy infrastructure. A complimentary retail system also exists http://www.dfitalia.com/en/raw_milk_dispensers.php . I would encourage you to start a forum or tool wiki with your projects and see what documentation and design approaches we can pull together and see if we can get some activity going on it.