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On this site you will find open source projects meant to assist with farming or life on the farm. Some of these projects will be made into a commercial products so watch out to be able to get them early! See below for the projected roadmap/timeline.

July 2023

The first version of the owl hooting project will be finished. It is also planned to make 3 simple breakout boards of potentially useful sensors.

August 2023

The owl hooting project is planned to be finished (before harvest). Work will start on the standalone LTE-M temperature monitor.

October 2023

The first version of the LTE-M standalone monitor will be done.

November 2023

The Open Grain Monitor will start to be created by using the standalone LTE-M monitor as a starting point.

January 2024

Will start looking for funding for the first production run of Open Grain Monitor.

March 2024

Start development of a LoRa gateway that also acts as a server so that no subscription is needed to monitor temperature. Again a simple standalone puck like monitor will be developed first.

April 2024

First version of the LoRa gateway and temperature monitor.

June 2024

Fund the first production run of the LoRa gateway and temperature monitor node.

August 2024

Fist production run of LTE-M grain sensor done.

November 2024

Fist production run of the LoRa gateway and temperature node done.

December 2024

Put the LTE-M grain monitor into full production.

January 2025

Start open weather station developed.

April 2025

Fund first production run of open weather station.

Any questions or concerns please email me at kody@farmhacks.ca