[HN Gopher] Documenting Plants with a 3D Printer, NFC, and Cardinal
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Documenting Plants with a 3D Printer, NFC, and Cardinal
Author : commondream
Score : 9 points
Date : 2023-08-09 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.withcardinal.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.withcardinal.com)
| lasermatts wrote:
| Awesome idea and inspiration. I've been storing my old seed
| packets in a Rolodex with handwritten notes and have been
| thinking of ways to make it more scalable.
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| One question for the 3D printer crowd: PLA will probably fade and
| crack quickly-ish with sun exposure in a garden, any material
| selection ideas to extend the life without injecting a plastic
| into the ground next to veggies?
| notnmeyer wrote:
| this was my thought too. less about the plastic getting into my
| veggies, but the longevity of the plastic case after frost/thaw
| cycles and uv exposure.
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| maybe you just pull them in the winter? i supposed that's a no-
| brainer in a veggie garden at least.
| lasermatts wrote:
| strong point for those in temperate climates -- then you
| could spend the winter devising ways to re-use the NFC tags
| and flash next year's plantings ahead of time
| commondream wrote:
| I've got some printed with PLA and some with PETG to see how
| they perform - I'm just going to give it some time and see what
| happens.
| notnmeyer wrote:
| this is pretty cool. im similarly bad at remembering the names of
| stuff i plant, so having a reliable way to catalog and track
| would be sweeeeeeet.
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