[HH] Small-scale farming goes high-tech

[Kurt Keville]

Louis is a friend of the show. Knows his stuff; works at the shared workspace at the corner of Norfolk and Hampshire. Can't remember the name of the place; Leaflabs is there, Lorem Ipsum storage, Eli Heffron, Arctronics...  you guys know the place?

On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:49 PM, Federico Lucifredi wrote:

> I have met him at the Open Hardware Summit. Nice project, a lot of effort has gone into it already/
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> I  recommend the enclosure… a NEMA enclosure to fit *any* SoC board is a sweet thing to have.
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> Best -F
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> On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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>> -------- 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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