Coming Soon: 6m x 3m Food Printing!
Added 2025-05-24 09:45:27 +0000 UTCI'm so close to automatic food production! Just need to iron out some last fiddles and bugs!
This is basically like a massive 3d printer, but with interchangeable tool heads that water, plant, weed and more! I'll do a full video in due course, but you get a sneak peek!!
Oh and I'm also going to have to share photos of me lugging 6 1/2 tonnes of topsoil and compost, so you can see me suffering!
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Sorry Bazza, missed this in all the mad busy workshop building! It is indeed! Just been plotting my first batch of plants and it should be auto-seeding, auto-watering, auto-weeding..... or it'll just explode because I've wired something wrong!
Hands on Katie
2025-06-10 08:01:29 +0000 UTCI'm really looking forward to seeing how this works over the longer term, but that's probably a video or series years in the making! :D In the meantime, it's looking like it's nearly ready for planting?
Bazza McSpleen
2025-05-27 16:33:01 +0000 UTCI will report back once I've done some aggressive testing!! I've deliberately picked some chunky timbers to ensure a bit of stability. There's also adjustable bolts in the sleepers, so I can adjust if I ever need to. More importantly the aluminium profiles appear very strong indeed, so these are the real interface layer - so I'm pretty hopefully. First assembly without too much faffing got it to <1mm variation along 6m x-axis, so fingers crossed!!
Hands on Katie
2025-05-25 07:55:22 +0000 UTCHow well does it handle track irregularities? My wooden planter beds have all warped to various degrees and I could see an attached track moving or twisting somewhat. Thanks! Looks like an amazing system
Jeremy
2025-05-24 20:52:42 +0000 UTC
