[HH] Small-scale farming goes high-tech

[Federico Lucifredi]

I have met him at the Open Hardware Summit. Nice project, a lot of effort has gone into it already/

I  recommend the enclosure… a NEMA enclosure to fit *any* SoC board is a sweet thing to have.

Best -F


On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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
> 
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