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FarmBot is an open source project aimed at making CNC farming accessible to as many people as possible.
FarmBot is an open source project aimed at making CNC farming accessible to as many people as possible.
It’s a neat idea, but at a small scale the little planting and weeding is really not a big deal to do by hand and scaling this up to greenhouse size would be probably prohibitly expensive for most people.
There are people who cannot do even that little bit of weeding.
Then in all likelihood they can’t maintain such a robot either.
this is sadly one of the big problems with farmbot, keeping the trackways clear in an actual use situation requires as much work as weeding. My hope is that ambulatory platforms (spider robots) which are able to nimbly move through a garden space while carrying the required tool heads will be able to use these methods to work in much larger areas and without so much visually disagreeable infrastructure.