This morning, I discovered a a whitepaper for an interesting new project: FarmBot. The goal is an open-source hardware/software system that will enable the efficient management of crops, both small-scale, and large-scale. Rather than using traditional one management/one field approach, FarmBot is an "automated precision farming machine" which…

For many years now, the trend in "micro brews" has been to hop the hell out of everything. I started homebrewing earlier this year and at first thought that my efforts were off because they didn't taste much like the microbrew offerings at the local/well-stocked groceries. After four batches…