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The site is throwing a 503 error, but there is a good archive link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210717211859/http://www.re-des...

Looks like a great manifesto. I'd also like to share my real world solarpunk project to those interested: https://community.twistedfields.com/t/a-closer-look-at-acorn...

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Very exciting farm robot! I know weeding is a very labor intensive job on farms so I hope you can help eliminate that entire industry! What other tasks would this be useful for? I think most of farming for basic crops like grain is already very low-labor now, isn't it?

Vision-based weeding is a product you can buy from Deere now.[1]

[1] https://www.deere.com/en/our-company/news-and-announcements/...

Sure, but a) that's still spraying, albeit more targeted (still a win) b) I'd have to give money to John Deere.

There are a few variants on that. One kind just overdoses the weed with fertilizer. One zaps weeds with a laser. One just stomps on them. A small one from WalMart takes out weeds with a string trimmer.

Most of the successful systems are wide implements to be towed behind a tractor, not autonomous robots. Farmers already have tractors.

omg I love that farming bot project! perfect concrete example after reading that manifesto :^) super inspired

Thank you so much! I wrote my own manifesto some years ago.

http://tlalexander.com/machine/

Any other projects (especially software or web related) you can recommend in this same spirit? Or maybe hackathons / conventions / irc / discord communities etc. for software engineers interested in getting involved?

I thought about this, but unfortunately I am so focused on my own work I often miss the work of others.

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