[HH] Small-scale farming goes high-tech

[Tom Metro]

A New England hacker has a Kickstarter campaign (currently about $1000
short of it's $20K goal) to produce small weather-proof boxes containing
an Arduino, LiPo battery, and some form of wireless (they don't seem to
specify; photo of a prototype shows a cell phone), into which a bunch of
different sensors can be plugged, from weather (wind, pressure) to
humidity, and I'm guessing eventually things like soil moisture.

$80 gets you a board and battery (no enclosure), and for $109 you get it
with the enclosure. (They had a higher-tier that included a weather
station, but they sold out.)

 -Tom

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Jack Shimek posted in Boston Area Maker Faire [on Facebook]

Help put a fellow hacker's kickstarter over the top. Louis Thiery is
an agro-hacker and helped found TekArts in Milford, NH:

Apitronics Wireless Platform
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lthiery/apitronics-wireless-platform

a field-ready wireless platform for environmental monitoring and
actuation