farmerbot turns gardening into gaming

April 28th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! by: alisha k.

Gardening can be lots of fun, but it’s not always really easy. It can be, though, if you’re a robotics expert able to put together your very own robot gardener, who can do all the grunt work by remote while you kick back in a lawn chair with a gaming controller.

Peter Sands’ garden-bot will create a garden in the space provided, down to planting seeds and tending the veg, but it doesn’t work on its own: the robot is really just a proxy gardener manipulated with a gaming controller. Much easier than breaking soil with a pickaxe!

There’s video of the project, too, but unfortunately, it’s a little short on the gritty details. Cool to see the scope of the garden-bot, though.

Flickr Video

[adafruit via Hack a Day]

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filed under:  hacks + mods robots strange + wonderful

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tags: arduinofast plantinggardenpeter sandsrobot

April 28th, 2009 comments (1): stumble it! digg it! by: alisha k.

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