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I’m not sure what your criteria is, but mine is to keep the grass alive and provide root structure for my soil.
Aesthetics matter.
square of grass is one of most boring things you can do aescethically with lawn
OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
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Because before your know it your very much open source company called Prusa will end up being competed with by subsidized stuff from the east based on your own work.
I don't belive in "open source", I believe in free software. So what? They make something better, so I take what they did and improve my product. It's not my problem if someone from the Big Red East does something with my work as long as they share it too.
> It's not my problem if someone from the Big Red East does something with my work as long as they share it too.
They also don't always do that. Look at the super popular BOOX e-ink notebooks. 100% in violation of the GPL, and has been for years, yet available to buy in common retailers such as Best Buy.
These are edging out popular devices, such as reMarkable, which are GPL compliant.
Re: OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
#123My dad's solution was simple: "Mow the lawn!" directed at me.
My solution has been even simpler --- I just use a reel mower (on an admittedly small lawn, ~1/3rd of an acre) --- it's a decent workout, esp. when I strive to finish quickly. (the one time I asked my son to cut the grass he broke the reel mower)
Reel mowers are also nicer for allergy sufferers - no dust etc thrown up in the air, no gasoline exhaust. Not to mention fairly quiet.
Obvious downsides are can't cope with some species (too low to ground, etc) or with sticks etc if near a wooded area.
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#124"Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!" The funny thing is: this actually works incredibly well. Perimeter wires are a PITA to install, but once that's done, they are a very practical and flawless method for making sure th…
Regardless of how good the perimeter wire bots are, it's also not true that the more advanced generation "sucks." I have one and it works perfectly fine (Mammotion Luba 2). The hardware is great, positioning is great; there is always stuff to nitpick on the software side but at the end of the day that's great as well.
Re: OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
#125"Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!" The funny thing is: this actually works incredibly well. Perimeter wires are a PITA to install, but once that's done, they are a very practical and flawless method for making sure th…
I have a Mammotion Yuba and trust me, the grass looks awesome as a grid or in lines. It can even do logos. So far nicer looking grass and much faster then random.
Re: OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
#126A compromise solution that cuts way down on complexity is remote controlled. Any suggestions for similar projects but RC instead of autonomous?
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#127Here's what robotic mowers blades look like to understand how they work - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/676d76e61268a4... We just got a Sunseeker X7 to do ~4 acres of grassed area but probably ~2 acres will be garden beds and roads etc The hardware is there, it's all software now. People talk about updates and the robot improved amazingly, comments like - "these scuffs are from pre-update" These are E…
How well does it cut 2 acres? how long does it take?
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#128Lawn mowing seems like such a useless thing. I mean domestic lawns themselves, especially in a crisis of biodiversity loss, are such a waste of possibility. I had to stop the video when I saw the mower was going for a patch of clovers, thus reducing plant diversity to a single boring, useless species
a square of tall grass and weeds isn't all that pretty and outright annoying if weeds are of the painful kind.
Like, yeah, there are more interesting things to do with your lawn but they all require more effort than dropping a robot charging station and letting it do its thing.
Also the clover patch is probably gonna regrow, mine do... tho I don't try to ground them to the ground
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#129"Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!" The funny thing is: this actually works incredibly well. Perimeter wires are a PITA to install, but once that's done, they are a very practical and flawless method for making sure th…
It looks like obstacle avoidance is the key thing remaining in the software todos. For positioning it seems you get your pick of RTK GPS sensors, so it'd be interesting to still support guide wires for "escape protection".
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#130> The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I recently (a few weeks ago) bought one. While researching on the available options (which seemed relevant to me), actually almost none of the robots work this way. Most of them systematically go through the lawn. I think fro…
Maybe instead of GPS or camera, it could have a local positioning system instead. 3 small, solar powered beacons can be installed around the yard to be mowed.