FarmBot – Open-Source CNC Farming [video]
This is cool but seems a tad over engineered.<p>I have a garden.  It uses a drip line that's buried in the ground.  It's $10 worth of tubing from Lowes with a few holes where plants go.  It's on a $15 timer that waters automatically once a day.  I do, however, have to take a few minutes to put seeds in the ground.<p>That said, I would be throwing money at the monitor right now if this thing was smart enough to identify weeds and remove them.  (Maybe that's in the plans?  They have a part for weeding shown.)<p>But I love all these new ideas around farming.  The most interesting is hydroponics considering how much more resourceful it is with water (sometimes using 90% less water per equal amount of harvest).<p>Edit: for those asking, all I used was half inch black tubing (the kind they use for automated sprinkler systems), drilled small holes every 12 inches, buried it, hooked it up to a spigot with a timer, and that's it.