Collaborate Disseminate
Hardware hackers come from a variety of backgrounds, but among us there remains a significant number whose taste for making things was forged through growing up in a farm environment. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: TVO
America’s Guardians have purchased two autonomous tractors to maintain the lawn at its base in Florida. Continue reading U.S. Space Force Buys Drone Tractors to Keep Its Florida Lawn Nice
A Ukrainian tractor hauling away Russian armor is a powerful symbol and a propaganda victory. Continue reading The Tractor Has Become a Symbol of Ukrainian Resistance
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
Sanders becomes the third presidential candidate to say that farmers should have the ability to fix their own tractors. Continue reading Bernie Sanders Calls for a National Right-to-Repair Law for Farmers
We went to Nebraska to meet the farmers fighting John Deere’s repair monopoly. Continue reading Tractor Hacking: Watch Our Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair
If you wanted to invoke American farming with colour, which colours would you pick? The chances are they would be the familiar green and yellow of a John Deere tractor. It’s a name that has been synonymous with US agriculture since the 1830s, when the blacksmith whose name appears on the tractors produced his first steel plough blade. The words “American icon” are thrown around for many things, but in the case of John Deere there are few modern brands with as much history to back up their claim to it.
A trip across the prairies then is to drive …read more
Continue reading The Icon Of American Farming That You Now Have To Hack To Own
Agriculture is using AI and the Internet of Things to plant crops better. Continue reading Self-Driving Cars Are Coming, but Self-Driving Tractors Are Already Here