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"I got a little too in to fancy video production with four locations and multiple angles on one of the videos and realized I need to dial it back and produce si

"I got a little too in to fancy video production with four locations and multiple angles on one of the videos and realized I need to dial it back and produce simpler more frequent videos." Well yes, the main thing I am expecting when I see a video about a robot/rover - is simply to see it in action. In the 9 minutes video it is shown to be moving only some seconds, which I totally missed upon skimming through it, which left me disappointed. So if it really can do GPS pathing, I want to see that, so why not show it? Probably best in a speedrun, where it goes up and down the field. All the technical details are interesting, but probably are better shown after it is shown what it can do. Basically all the robot movies are following that pattern and it makes kind of sense. Because you likely want to attract people who want to use it and not mainly people who want to tinker with it for the sake of tinkering. "Tools are highly specific to the farming process used" Seeding and weeding (in early stage) are quite general problems (mostly) independent from the plant and especially autonomous weeding (to not have to use pesticides) could be really useful. You are probably aware of https://farm.bot https://farm.bot? They are doing it stationary, but maybe the same tools with modifications could be applied to your rovers?

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Ah so what’s happening here is that our first video was entirely drone shots of the robot operating autonomously, and this video was our second video with a focus on the technical system design. Overall we’ve released three videos and two show it in autonomous operation. Just not this one! The new video that has more complex production is an 18 minute narrative video sharing the full details of our intent as well as a story which has been important for me to share for a long time. To keep it engaging I decided to shoot in a few different locations at the farm and change camera angles, but I learned that it’s just too much to attempt to do that. So future videos will be me standing in one spot reading an update while I play b-roll of whatever we’re discussing on screen. Weeding tools are going to be more complex and rely on computer vision, which requires building a data set and a lot of complex mechanics, so we want to release the system to early adopters before that. Plenty of people are interested in this, and anyone who wants to wait till we have tools is welcome to do so. It’s just going to take a while because we’re not venture funded, we’re a little open source research project. Here’s a video of autonomous operation. Also in my first link in the comment you’re replying to there’s a video showing complex multi-path following capability. Cheers! https://youtu.be/NsyEIgKVM5E https://youtu.be/NsyEIgKVM5E
- hutzlibu 4y ago
  Thanks for the clarification and I just now see that indeed also in this video the rover is moving in the video in the beginning. But not very long and I assume many people are like me lazily skimming through things half distracted - and missing the important parts and just leave - so I still would advice to start a video with some more action. Not necessarily TikTok style (for me that would be off putting), but still more focus on the rover in action. (Like a speedrun) "So future videos will be me standing in one spot reading an update while I play b-roll of whatever we’re discussing on screen." That sounds solid enough. I am also in the process of working up the presentation of a software open source project - and I totally get lost in fancy details, while forgetting the essentials. Anyway, keep it up, looks good!
sweettea 4y ago
As an recently ex small regenerative farmer, seeding is a well understood process - tools like the Jang or four-row seeder make it fast and easy. What really peeved me was the repetitive, uncreative aspects, primarily the cultivation - I can't think of many less exciting things than walking up and down beds of crops too small to have a closed canopy dragging a cultivation hoe as close to the rows as feasible. Its one thing when the plants are big enough for some variation; but by then theyve shaded out the weeds and its not needed. I would love a tool like this, even if it required setting up some sort of track, which could run a standard seeder on a precise path and then habitually run a standard cultivating hoe within a quarterinch of the rows it seeded without me thinking about it. I could never rig up something suitable on a BCS toolbar, its bed clearance wasnt enough. Being able to not interact with a crop beyond irrigation maintenace, filling seed hoppers, and harvesting/bed flipping would be amazing.
- abdullahkhalids 4y ago
  https://farm.bot/ https://farm.bot/ does what you are asking for, but only in a very small area.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago

Ah so what’s happening here is that our first video was entirely drone shots of the robot operating autonomously, and this video was our second video with a focus on the technical system design. Overall we’ve released three videos and two show it in autonomous operation. Just not this one! The new video that has more complex production is an 18 minute narrative video sharing the full details of our intent as well as a story which has been important for me to share for a long time. To keep it engaging I decided to shoot in a few different locations at the farm and change camera angles, but I learned that it’s just too much to attempt to do that. So future videos will be me standing in one spot reading an update while I play b-roll of whatever we’re discussing on screen. Weeding tools are going to be more complex and rely on computer vision, which requires building a data set and a lot of complex mechanics, so we want to release the system to early adopters before that. Plenty of people are interested in this, and anyone who wants to wait till we have tools is welcome to do so. It’s just going to take a while because we’re not venture funded, we’re a little open source research project. Here’s a video of autonomous operation. Also in my first link in the comment you’re replying to there’s a video showing complex multi-path following capability. Cheers! https://youtu.be/NsyEIgKVM5E https://youtu.be/NsyEIgKVM5E

hutzlibu 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification and I just now see that indeed also in this video the rover is moving in the video in the beginning. But not very long and I assume many people are like me lazily skimming through things half distracted - and missing the important parts and just leave - so I still would advice to start a video with some more action. Not necessarily TikTok style (for me that would be off putting), but still more focus on the rover in action. (Like a speedrun) "So future videos will be me standing in one spot reading an update while I play b-roll of whatever we’re discussing on screen." That sounds solid enough. I am also in the process of working up the presentation of a software open source project - and I totally get lost in fancy details, while forgetting the essentials. Anyway, keep it up, looks good!

sweettea 4y ago

As an recently ex small regenerative farmer, seeding is a well understood process - tools like the Jang or four-row seeder make it fast and easy. What really peeved me was the repetitive, uncreative aspects, primarily the cultivation - I can't think of many less exciting things than walking up and down beds of crops too small to have a closed canopy dragging a cultivation hoe as close to the rows as feasible. Its one thing when the plants are big enough for some variation; but by then theyve shaded out the weeds and its not needed. I would love a tool like this, even if it required setting up some sort of track, which could run a standard seeder on a precise path and then habitually run a standard cultivating hoe within a quarterinch of the rows it seeded without me thinking about it. I could never rig up something suitable on a BCS toolbar, its bed clearance wasnt enough. Being able to not interact with a crop beyond irrigation maintenace, filling seed hoppers, and harvesting/bed flipping would be amazing.

abdullahkhalids 4y ago
https://farm.bot/ https://farm.bot/ does what you are asking for, but only in a very small area.