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Prefab Greenhouse + Ardunio Controls = Automated Agriculture (Video)
Sam Bagot and Will Bratton operate Horto Domi (hortodomi.com), an agricultural project they describe as "beyond organic." They're working with small prefab greenhouses, adding sensors and Arduino-actuated controls, and even including an earthworm breeding area in most domes, because earthworms are good for the soil and can increase plant production. If you're the kind of person whose plants always seem to shrivel up and die, this may be a great way to garden. With watering and other functions automated, it looks like all you have to do is set your controls, plant what you want to grow, and wait for the "time to harvest" alarm to go off. Okay, it might not be that simple, but Sam and Will say their gardening method saves a lot of energy and time. It also looks like fun, besides being an easy way to grow your own 100% organic fruits and vegetables.
What have we come to? Wanting flexibility while getting the most out of our time and money because we prefer conversation, social interaction, and fresh air to tedious bit-twiddling and masturbating chronically to WoW porn while pissing our engineer salaries' away on overpriced collectible action figures.
Which is what you do, by the way. The latter, not the former.
It's like when we were competing for that hot chick at the photography show. You were there with your enlarger and developers and fixers babbling about boring shit like shutter and exposure settings, and what kind of filter you use for your darkroom, and that's when she got bored of your soulless quantitative approach and came over to my exhibit instead. Then I showed her the soul of my photography with a digital camera and a home photo printer that cost me a total of $200 bucks, concentrating on the art itself and how emotional and profound it feels. She got my number and went to my house later that evening.
Yes, we boned. I cruise, you lose.
-- Ethanol-fueled