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Problem: Kickstarter et al founders not communicating shipping information. I'm looking at you Antsy Labs! Project: Crowdsourced backer shipping data. A backer can share their order date, delivery date, and optionally their order number. This allows other backers to see when (if!) orders are being shipped and delivered. We can then estimate when backers should get their order. Audience: Kickstarter and Indiegogo back…
Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use. Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficul…
As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update. https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/ Have a few working prototypes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw ), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make…
I'm building a 21st century farm. I'm working towards building an ag farm that nets $100,000/yr with only 8hrs/week of actual work. No clue how I'm going to get there but that's the fun stuff. Right?
How do you get started with something like that? Do you have a blog or anything?
There's quite a few people out there doing this stuff. Google "urban farming" or "urban horticulture" and see how much that stokes your curiosity.
0: http://theurbanfarmer.co/ 1: https://m.youtube.com/user/urbanfarmercstone
I'm building a 21st century farm. I'm working towards building an ag farm that nets $100,000/yr with only 8hrs/week of actual work. No clue how I'm going to get there but that's the fun stuff. Right?
Interesting. If it can be implemented in an apartment, I am game :)
I'm building a 21st century farm. I'm working towards building an ag farm that nets $100,000/yr with only 8hrs/week of actual work. No clue how I'm going to get there but that's the fun stuff. Right?
Possible issues: capital, interest, land acquisition, zoning, weather, water, climatic region, crop seed availability, need for supplementary transportation (seeds, equipment, fertilizer, etc.), unpredictable transport overheads, etc. The fact that you are sharing hard figures before a method really shows that you haven't advanced your thinking very far. Plants don't need technology to grow, they grow anyway. I'm not…
You mentioned harvesting and this is what I'm actually looking forward to most. Immigrant labor is getting more and more expensive, costly, and risky. Entry-level farm hands will always have a place, but we're going to see a lot of growth in automation equipment. I'm planning for it in my designs and once the costs reach near parity it'll basically be my solution and catalyst for scaling.
I'm building a 21st century farm. I'm working towards building an ag farm that nets $100,000/yr with only 8hrs/week of actual work. No clue how I'm going to get there but that's the fun stuff. Right?
Possible issues: capital, interest, land acquisition, zoning, weather, water, climatic region, crop seed availability, need for supplementary transportation (seeds, equipment, fertilizer, etc.), unpredictable transport overheads, etc. The fact that you are sharing hard figures before a method really shows that you haven't advanced your thinking very far. Plants don't need technology to grow, they grow anyway. I'm not…
currently making low-cost and low-powered tree cameras that will hang from Atlanta-area fruit trees and send us once-a-week tree photos. The idea is that we can hang them in trees all over the metro area and keep an eye on when they ripen. This is mostly powered by the Twilio programmable data service and the Ai-Thinker A20 ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/DIYmall-ESP8266-A20-Wifi-GPR... ) -- WiFi and 2G cell radio…
What kind of a cell plan (and pricing) do you use for this?