Garden Tower
Venture Category: Food and Agriculture
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Design and prototype a garden tower. This venture is similar to Green Wall.
The goal of the venture is to perfect sensing and automation systems for microfarming. Some of this technology will be applied to large scale greenhouse operations.
Description
Description
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Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Communication channels
Messaging: Discord channel, Sensorica-ecg mailing list, Food System forum.
For more generic discussions: Open forum, Main Sensorica mailing list
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Planning
Planning
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Status: first prototype under testing
Needs
Early adopters
Mechanical engineering
Electrical engineering
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This venture was created on March 28, 2023, under the initiative of Larry Reader. Larry forked eCommunity garden and the Green Wall venture to focus on a different, low tech design.
Documentation repository
Documentation repository
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Incentives
Incentives
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Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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Agreements
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