Thank you! Yep Acorn lives outside full time. I (Taylor) worked from home during part of our recent rainy season and Acorn was up in a field getting hammered by storms, but when I returned it was still working great!

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Thank you!

Haha yes! I just said that!

Unofficial Social Media Manager/Networ-er here, here is a but of an explanation of what OSE is, then at the bottom a link to our *discord server* . I'd love to talk about this idea; i was thinking of a "farmbot but the frame is a rover" for a while so this project is amazing! ANYWHO Open Source Ecology or “OSE” is a basically a group dedicated to making all the hardware needed to build, and run, a small community/farm/town, ALL Fully Open Source It is a bit complex, as it is such a broad, multidisciplinary goal, so I’d recommend first watching the TED Talk made when the group was founded: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/i2Zkd69ta6ZjzYU.html Then I’d recommend looking around these pages: The wiki where the “real work” happens wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_Page (FYI it is a bit of a mess, and it’s search engine is using tech from the 90’s) The more basic (mainly announcements) page: www.opensourceecology.org/ There are also offshoot groups: - The “Open Building Institute” specializing in buildings and houses (both design, and construction) - The “Open Circuit Institute” which specializes in circuit design, and decentralized production of these PCBs Given that the wiki can be hard to navigate, I can be a “Sherpa” of sorts, feel free to ask any questions you have!

Hah yes. A few reasons. I did not do thermal vias on that PCB and I used 2oz copper so I had to hit it hard with the heat gun to do some rework. That may have been what you saw. But also on one of the PCBs I fried the current measurement chip when I hooked up a battery to the solar input for use at night without first disconnecting the supercap. So current tried to rush from the 52v battery to the probably 30v supercaps and instantly fried that chip. When I redesigned the PCB a few months ago I broke off the power section to a separate board so rework, replacement, and upgrades are easier, and I went back to using thermal vias. One of the upgrades will be a dedicated battery input so I am not unplugging stuff to add in the battery when running tests at night (I am a night owl). - Taylor

@@twistedfields totally understandable. Youre doin good work on this project 👏

Details here: community.twistedfields.com/t/motor-and-controller-selections/52

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The current vehicle is great on rough terrain! Since it is four wheel drive, has large tires, and it very light, it floats over big bumps with ease.

@@twistedfields Crops grow in loose, fine soil because their roots are fine and small. Rocks and big hard chunks won’t grow anything. You need to learn about plants to build a useful agbots.

Rough terrain is not crop land. It might be a forest, but the rougher, rockier, it gets, even forests are compromised.

Good question! I don't think we've quite tallied all that but straight BOM cost for the base vehicle is probably around $6k-10k. We will be making a new version intended for reproduction which will have clear documentation and BOM cost once that is ready!