Bloombot
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Published on November 2, 2009
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Designed for an upcoming robotics competition at WPI in which the robots must "improve quality of life" in some way:
Bloombot is an open-source automated hydroponics system that aims to build community and increase the engagement of people with their food. Bloombot is capable of growing plants like lettuces and herbs throughout the year and, through use of Twitter integration hopes to build off the work of other products (like AeroGrow and Botanicalls) to integrate some of their functionality to produce a machine that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Still working on finishing up the parts list but it's almost complete.
Bloombot is an open-source automated hydroponics system that aims to build community and increase the engagement of people with their food. Bloombot is capable of growing plants like lettuces and herbs throughout the year and, through use of Twitter integration hopes to build off the work of other products (like AeroGrow and Botanicalls) to integrate some of their functionality to produce a machine that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Still working on finishing up the parts list but it's almost complete.
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yay digital farming
just input the design with info on the plant, fertilizer,soil,water,light and other factors
and they will be regulated by the bot
until we can print food(star trek wise, I am looking real far in the future with this one)
this will be fantastic because we need to get food from something in the post monetary economy if nobody is working for money anymore
and conventional farming can take quite some time and effort that most people want to spent on something else.