Open Source Farming Robot

Not like they're alternatives exactly, but I get the feeling that the BEAM way is to solve the ops problems in a way resembles how you solved your dev problems. More holistic, less ad hoc.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by e1gen-v » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 1:59 AM UTC

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #4

It's written in Elixir. Maybe it's just a grass-is-greener thing but the more Kubernetes I have to stomach, the more interested I become in BEAM languages like Elixir. Not like they're alternatives exactly, but I get the feeling that the BEAM way is to solve the ops problems in a way resembles how you solved your dev problems. More holistic, less ad hoc.

Can you elaborate? I’m intrigued.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by donw » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:01 AM UTC

For some values of "open source": the datasets used for information about the plants and such are unavailable as of the last time I checked.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:01 AM UTC

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Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by wmoxam » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:06 AM UTC

More like gardenbot

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by mikepurvis » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:14 AM UTC

e1gen-v wrote: post #5

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #4

It's written in Elixir. Maybe it's just a grass-is-greener thing but the more Kubernetes I have to stomach, the more interested I become in BEAM languages like Elixir. Not like they're alternatives exactly, but I get the feeling that the BEAM way is to solve the ops problems in a way resembles how you solved your dev problems. More holistic, less ad hoc.

Can you elaborate? I’m intrigued.

Not a huge erlang person but I think the idea is that redundancy and robustness is managed by the BEAM process on each host, so that layer is much higher in the stack. Compared with k8s where it’s like okay die if something goes wrong and the container orchestrator makes you a whole new chroot as if you just rebooted.

Re: Open Source Farming Robot

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Post by dang » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

pedrodelfino wrote: post #2

Previous thread from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628101 A lot of advances since then.

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Open Source Farming Robot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628101 - June 2021 (227 comments)

FarmBot Genesis XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19002022 - Jan 2019 (1 comment)