Collaborate Disseminate
It’s fair to say that the hearts and minds of Hackaday readers lie closer to the technology centres of Shenzhen or Silicon Valley than they do to the soybean fields of Minnesota. The common link is the desire to actually own the hardware we buy. Among those working the soil …read more
Continue reading DMCA-Locked Tractors Make Decades-Old Machines the New Hotness
Pictures of a cow wearing a pair of comically oversized virtual reality goggles recently spread like wildfire over social media, and even the major news outlets eventually picked it up. Why not? Nobody wants to read about geopolitical turmoil over the holidays, and this story was precisely the sort of …read more
Continue reading Electric Dreams Help Cows Survive The Desert Of The Real
Making sure that an electric fence which is keeping one’s cattle and sheep from wandering off is still working properly seems like a fairly daunting task, especially when this fence is quite a distance from one’s home so checking up on it is time-consuming. After a friend of [kiu] got …read more
Russia’s largest agricultural holding company has joined forces with AI development firm Cognitive Technologies to pilot autonomous crop management on 665,000 hectares of land. It is hoped that the technology will help reduce crop losses whil… Continue reading Autonomous combine set to harvest Russian fields
Here at Hackaday we are willing to bet that in a universe free of all monetary constraints, many of our readers would leave their day jobs in order to pursue their hardware hobbies full time. Obviously this is only practical for a lucky minority of people (for a wide variety of reasons) but we’re willing to bet that a significant stumbling block is figuring how to do it in the first place. You quit your job, but then what? If more information about starting and sustaining small hardware business’ was available more people would take the plunge to start one. …read more
Continue reading Open Source Company Gives Us A Peek At Financial Innards
The discovery suggests that Natufian hunter-gatherers baked bread from wild grains long before it was cultivated from crops. Continue reading The Oldest Bread Ever Found Dates Back 14,400 Years and Predates Agriculture
Robert Wielgus, director of the Carnivore Conservation Lab, received a settlement from the school after he sued for infringing on his academic freedom. Continue reading A Researcher Got Paid $300,000 to Resign After He Said Shooting Wolves Is Bad
A new study of all the biomass on the planet found that 60 percent of all mammals are livestock. Continue reading Most of the Mammals On Earth Are Cows Because We’re Addicted to Meat
We are delighted to see The Weedinator as an entry for the 2018 Hackaday Prize! Innovations in agriculture are great opportunities to build something to improve our world. [TegwynTwmffat]’s Weedinator is an autonomous, electric platform aimed at small farms to take care of cultivating, tilling, and weeding seedbeds. The cost of this kind of labor can push smaller farms out of sustainability if it has to be done by people.
Greater efficiency in agriculture is traditionally all about multiplying the work a single person can do, and usually takes the form or bigger and heavier equipment that can do more …read more
Author and activist Tristram Stuart has launched campaigns, new businesses, and community events to stop nations from squandering food. Continue reading This Campaigner Wants to End the Global Food Waste Scandal