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FarmBot is an open source project aimed at making CNC farming accessible to as many people as possible.
this is sadly one of the big problems with farmbot, keeping the trackways clear in an actual use situation requires as much work as weeding. My hope is that ambulatory platforms (spider robots) which are able to nimbly move through a garden space while carrying the required tool heads will be able to use these methods to work in much larger areas and without so much visually disagreeable infrastructure.
Having been around CNCs, robots, and gardens I tend to agree. If you can’t handle weeding in a human-sized garden, don’t garden. Especially when you mulch and plant a good mix to cover ground and different plant heights there aren’t really any weeds to begin with.
There are people who cannot do even that little bit of weeding.
Then in all likelihood they can’t maintain such a robot either.
this is sadly one of the big problems with farmbot, keeping the trackways clear in an actual use situation requires as much work as weeding. My hope is that ambulatory platforms (spider robots) which are able to nimbly move through a garden space while carrying the required tool heads will be able to use these methods to work in much larger areas and without so much visually disagreeable infrastructure.
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Having been around CNCs, robots, and gardens I tend to agree. If you can’t handle weeding in a human-sized garden, don’t garden. Especially when you mulch and plant a good mix to cover ground and different plant heights there aren’t really any weeds to begin with.