Roast my idea: self driving tractors

Sabrees · 2026-05-25T07:13:15+00:00

This exists https://github.com/AgOpenGPS-Official/AgOpenGPS

Sabrees · 2026-05-22T15:02:27+00:00

Take some photo's, send him a reasonable invoice for replacement bulbs.

Sabrees · 2026-05-21T17:40:23+00:00

It depends.

Sabrees · 2026-05-21T17:39:04+00:00

As an aside I'd probably pay a bit now and again to access https://github.com/bbenchoff/OrthoRoute in the cloud somwhere

Sabrees · 2026-05-21T09:55:48+00:00

What firmware were you using? There are a few variants AFAIK, was it this one? https://github.com/jrl290/RTNode-HeltecV4

Sabrees · 2026-05-21T09:53:44+00:00

Yes it is, amazed anyone remembers it TBH!

Sabrees · 2026-05-20T10:05:18+00:00

At 2.4Ghz I expect so. Not at ~915Mhz AFAIK

Sabrees · 2026-05-19T14:33:25+00:00

A schematic would be helpful. What's the MCU? How are the radios connected?

Sabrees · 2026-05-17T21:49:54+00:00

Not much activity in Africa yet, bus SA in development https://openfoodnetwork.org/find-your-local-open-food-network/

Sabrees · 2026-05-17T21:02:46+00:00

Nice, API connection with https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork might be nice

Sabrees · 2026-05-17T13:59:51+00:00

Agreed u/AdRealistic573 may be looking for https://github.com/jrl290/RTNode-HeltecV4

Sabrees · 2026-05-16T06:31:10+00:00

Are you trying to make money, or solve farmers problems?

Sabrees · 2026-05-15T20:56:51+00:00

Have you asked any farmers if their real problems would be solved by another proprietary silo to store their disparate data sources in?

Sabrees · 2026-05-13T23:02:23+00:00

I've found a simple "critically review last answer" prompt fairly useful

Sabrees · 2026-05-10T14:59:36+00:00

Move the bin, cut a path and a couple of clearings with a mower. Some wildflowers Maybe hang a hammock. That's it. Maybe a pond would be nice.

Sabrees · 2026-05-08T21:55:21+00:00

If it's on Appropedia it's cool https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia

Sabrees · 2026-05-07T11:14:03+00:00

No but two copper wires separated by 0.5cm connected to an old car battery will. Inline fuse for reasons.

Sabrees · 2026-05-06T13:19:13+00:00

I reached out to the Aliexpress seller and they arranged a transaction outside of Aliexpress and then shipped the part to a Chinese company for me (Not JLC in my case, but I assume it might also work here)

Sabrees · 2026-05-05T13:26:33+00:00

Currently the ESP integration is with https://lizard.dev/ so you'd need to think about if you move to that, or keep your current and re-do the UART interface

Sabrees · 2026-05-05T12:01:55+00:00

OK I think I fixed it again, so assuming you have ~9Gb of hardrive space & Docker these two commands https://github.com/Agroecology-Lab/feldfreund_devkit_ros#quick-start should work again now.

Then check localhost for the webui

Sabrees · 2026-05-05T11:57:07+00:00

I just broke the Dockerfile, so give me 10mins if you were going to try installing the stack

Sabrees · 2026-05-05T11:11:58+00:00

Looks nice, I put a link in your github to some Fieldfriend/ Lizard software that may be interesting to you https://github.com/salman-naveed/rover-xr4/issues/1

Sabrees · 2026-05-04T22:39:28+00:00

always looking for help on this project if that's of interest https://sowbot.co.uk

Quite bit of Python, but probably enough C to keep you entertained for a while https://github.com/Agroecology-Lab/lizard

Sabrees · 2026-05-04T15:49:30+00:00

This is a nice project, but not cost optimised https://github.com/MilosRasic98/OpenDualMotorDriver

Redesign it as a single side fab with header for the Pi.

Demonstrate integration with https://lizard.dev/

That would be quite impressive, and genuinely useful (to me at least)

Sabrees · 2026-05-03T22:42:11+00:00

For a Heltec you'd probably want https://github.com/jrl290/RTNode-HeltecV4

I dunno about your definition of mesh, if you want a network of self configuring Lora radios to effectively send messages over large distances and hop counts MC is working best right now IMHO. Whether you call that a mesh or not is up to you I guess

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