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https://www.planttape.com/ https://www.planttape.com/ mentioned in the article is so cool. I wonder if they were inspired by pick and place machines with electr

https://www.planttape.com/ https://www.planttape.com/ mentioned in the article is so cool. I wonder if they were inspired by pick and place machines with electronic parts on reels.

kickout 6y ago
Might be coolest engineering solution I've seen in my short time on this planet.
mikro2nd 6y ago
There have been similar systems for seed-sowing for decades. This is the first system I've seen anything like it for seedling transplanting, but the concept is not so far different from the seed-tapes that horticulture has used for quite a long time, so I'd be more inclined to think the inspiration came from closer by than electronics.
- kickout 6y ago
  Correct, its a horticulture driven innovation (makes it more cool IMO).
dakna 6y ago
https://paperpot.co/ https://paperpot.co/ is the same idea as a manual labor version. I never used it since you need more machinery to prepare the beds for it, but from what I read they are very popular with small scale market gardeners.
dejv 6y ago
Machines like these exists in all scales you can imagine. I had new vineyard planted two years ago. Big tractor with automatic planting station arrived and with GPS base station they were able to plan in around 2cm accuracy. There was no automatical steering, but whole machine and tractor shutted down when driver move out of mission plan. You can decide what is row spacing going to be, what space between plants are going to be and you are done. What would take me week of manual labor took machine just 40 minutes (well kinda: one servo broke down and they had to call mechanic from Germany which took off two days of very expensive machine time in prime season). Here you can see simmilar machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC32JgiDxo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC32JgiDxo4

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https://www.planttape.com/ https://www.planttape.com/ mentioned in the article is so cool. I wonder if they were inspired by pick and place machines with electr

by dsalzman 6y ago

https://www.planttape.com/ https://www.planttape.com/ mentioned in the article is so cool. I wonder if they were inspired by pick and place machines with electronic parts on reels.

kickout 6y ago
Might be coolest engineering solution I've seen in my short time on this planet.
mikro2nd 6y ago
There have been similar systems for seed-sowing for decades. This is the first system I've seen anything like it for seedling transplanting, but the concept is not so far different from the seed-tapes that horticulture has used for quite a long time, so I'd be more inclined to think the inspiration came from closer by than electronics.
- kickout 6y ago
  Correct, its a horticulture driven innovation (makes it more cool IMO).
dakna 6y ago
https://paperpot.co/ https://paperpot.co/ is the same idea as a manual labor version. I never used it since you need more machinery to prepare the beds for it, but from what I read they are very popular with small scale market gardeners.
dejv 6y ago
Machines like these exists in all scales you can imagine. I had new vineyard planted two years ago. Big tractor with automatic planting station arrived and with GPS base station they were able to plan in around 2cm accuracy. There was no automatical steering, but whole machine and tractor shutted down when driver move out of mission plan. You can decide what is row spacing going to be, what space between plants are going to be and you are done. What would take me week of manual labor took machine just 40 minutes (well kinda: one servo broke down and they had to call mechanic from Germany which took off two days of very expensive machine time in prime season). Here you can see simmilar machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC32JgiDxo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC32JgiDxo4