Friday was a day when Rhona Watson’s husband John and I made good progress on lots of tiny things. We were working with the components that make Farmbot a sophisticated precision farming machine.
I spent WAY too much time figuring out how to download and install the software that Farmbot needs to run its little Raspberry Pi 3 computer. While I was muttering in the corner in frustration, John mounted in their protective plastic box the computer, its little controller, and the shield that protects the controller.
We also put together the “Universal Tool Mount,” the little tin-can implement that alternately picks up to use and then puts down the seeder, the waterer, the soil sensor, and the weeder. Think wires. Tiny wires. Lots and lots of tiny wires. Secured to their mounting posts with, get this, tiny zip ties! Not the way this old man would have designed it, but what do I know?
Each of those implements needs little nubbins, knobs, and noodles to work, and we also put several of those tiny components together.
All in all a good day. Just no pretty pictures to share with you.
Lee Borden
