Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve now spent several months with the latest wire-free Landroid robo-mower, and we’ve found it a mix of confusing, educational, satisfying and highly entertaining. Oddly enough, the one thing the Vision seems to need… is a bit more vision.Continue … Continue reading Review: Latest Landroid robo-mower could do with a tad more Vision
If you’re not mowing your lawn regularly, you’re probably familiar with the hassle of overfilling your catcher. Grass clippings end up scattered everywhere, and you end up with a messy …read more Continue reading Grass Gauge Tells You When the Lawnmower’s Catcher is Full
We techie types are quite often much more comfortable in front of a keyboard knocking out code, than out in the yard splitting logs for winter, and even the little …read more Continue reading Cutting The Grass With Frickin’ Lasers
A recent tour of an old WWII-era aircraft carrier reminded us how hard navigation was before the advent of GPS. It used to be the work of skilled people to …read more Continue reading Lawnmower Doesn’t Need a Base Station
Mowing the lawn is one of those tasks that someone will always be optimizing or automating. To allow to mow the lawn while seated comfortably in the shade, [Workshop from …read more Continue reading RC Lawnmower Is Built To Last
Segway-Ninebot has rolled on into the autonomous lawn mower space with a robotic gardening solution that goes a little further than most, using GPS to navigate gardens with a high degree of precision. Low noise levels and easy cleaning are other notewo… Continue reading Segway’s first robotic lawn mower uses GPS to stay on course
Although first presented to the world as an April 1st joke, [Jotun]’s IRC-enabled lawnmower began life as the result of casual bantering among folk on the Undernet IRC network. When …read more Continue reading Is It A Lawnmower? Is It an RPi IRC Server? It’s Both!
Grass is a lovely thing to have, but unfortunately it tends to grow excessively long if left unattended. Obviously, one can use a regular lawn mower, but [Daniel] of [rctestflight] decided to build something remote-control instead. (Video, embedded below.)
To get started, [Daniel] fitted X-acto blades to a brushless outrunner …read more
As a kid, one of the stories my dad told me was about mowing a fairly large field of grass on the farm with a gas-powered push mower. One day, some sort of farm tool was left in the field and the old industrial mower shredded it, sending a large …read more
[nodemcu12ecanada] is serious about saving water, which is why they built this strange lawnmower that can cut grass taller.
Short lawns are one of those clever marketing victories, like convincing people to eat a lot of sugar, that’s been doing more harm than good ever since the victory was won. …read more