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Is anyone using farmbot tech or some other technical augmentation as part of their set up ?

 
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Just curious if anyone is successfully using farmbots or some other technology based creations as part of their setup, specifically with the goal in mind of reducing the amount of manual labor someone that has a hard time getting up and down all day would have to do to maintain their farms.
The farmbot is sort of a static solution, I also program robotics and am wondering how a farmbot type setup on top of a mobile wheeled or treaded crawler might work in a setup designed to accommodate such things...
Something like these nice little robots - if I had space and a working spine last year I'd probably be in this comp, or at least trying to be...anyone out there testing them out ?

 
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I use drones as part of my planning for gardens spaces and 3D CAD to design all my homestead features like Chicken coops and gardens and other features on our homestead as well as GIS mapping provided by the county I live in to use tech to help me make the most/best out of my acreage.
 
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Ron Kulas wrote:I use drones as part of my planning for gardens spaces and 3D CAD to design all my homestead features like Chicken coops and gardens and other features on our homestead as well as GIS mapping provided by the county I live in to use tech to help me make the most/best out of my acreage.



Nice ! Soil maps and water data on the GIS, or more ? I was looking for some insect and animal population coverages my self, as well as point source pollution sites I could buffer around as I try to figure out where I'm going to land...
 
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