[HN Gopher] Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video]
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Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video]
Author : mmh0000
Score : 66 points
Date : 2024-01-30 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ijhuygft776 wrote:
| The result of the cost of this tractor divided by cost of a Tesla
| is somewhat close to the number of screens in this tractor.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Would be amazing if Tesla started building tractors like
| Porsche and Lamborghini used to.
|
| EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lamborghini
| samstave wrote:
| > _...Lamboghini used to..._ "
|
| They litereally started as a tractor company, and as I
| understand it was annoyed at Enzo Ferrari and challeneged
| himself to making a supercar, and later the "Holy Shit"
| Countach was born (but the earlier Lambos are really
| beautiful)
| dylan604 wrote:
| what do you mean used to?
|
| Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear fame has a 2-season show about
| his farm. In the first episode, he buys a Lambo tractor
| because "of course he does" type of logic.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| > As a world financial crisis began to take hold, Ferruccio
| Lamborghini's companies began to run into financial
| difficulties. In 1971, Lamborghini's tractor company, which
| exported around half of its production, ran into
| difficulties. Cento, Trattori's South African importer,
| cancelled all its orders. After staging a successful coup
| d'etat, the new military government of Bolivia cancelled a
| large order of tractors that was partially ready to ship
| from Genoa. Trattori's employees, like Automobili's, were
| unionised and could not be laid off. In 1972, Lamborghini
| sold his entire holding in Trattori to SAME, another
| tractor builder.
|
| The name lives on in the ag market, but built by SAME, not
| Automobili.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Trattori
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAME_(tractors)
| IndrekR wrote:
| Lamborghini still makes them (owned by SAME):
| https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com
|
| There is also a tractor company called FERRARI, but they have
| nothing to do with Enzo Ferrari as far as I know.
| tgsovlerkhgsel wrote:
| I believe you are correct about Ferrari:
|
| "Ferrari Tractors are designed and built in Italy by the
| BCS Group." (https://www.ferraritractor.com/faq)
|
| English Wikipedia gives up at that point, but itwiki has
| https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_(azienda)
|
| Google Translate: "FERRARI of Luzzara (RE) is one of the
| historic brands in the field of agricultural mechanization.
| Founded in 1954 as "Officine Meccanica Ferrari SpA", in the
| period of reconstruction and mechanization of the country,
| it was one of the most enterprising companies in the
| agricultural machinery sector."
|
| Meanwhile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari says it was
| founded in 1939 and doesn't mention tractors at all.
| randomdata wrote:
| Ferrari (the car brand) and CNH (Case IH, New Holland) were
| both under the same ownership a few years back, so in a way
| you could say they were Ferrari tractors. Seems there has
| been some changes in the meantime, though.
| orenlindsey wrote:
| Farmers are truly geniuses. They have to be a combination of
| agriculturalist, meteorologist, engineer, mechanic, handyman,
| builder, vet, hydrologist, and now we're adding technologist to
| that. They also generally have an amazing work ethic (getting up
| before sunrise, working in the blazing heat all day, etc). Not to
| mention dealing with disasters like diseases, weather events,
| accidents (lots of sharp blades, tools, etc).
|
| Massive respect for them. Even with this tractor, this guy likely
| does more work than the majority of people. They feed our entire
| society with a ton of work for very little reward. We don't give
| them the respect they're due.
| mstade wrote:
| I've recently picked up Farming Simulator on PS5, not so much
| because I'm into farming or anything but it's a great little
| game for shutting your brain off for a while. There's no point
| to the game, beyond just farming, which is great because you
| can pick it up and drop off whenever, you're not in the middle
| of some narrative.
|
| Point being: they've put a lot of effort into modelling the
| different tractors and first time I used the in-vehicle
| perspective I was amazed at all the screens and knobs and dials
| and levers and what not. They don't really do anything in the
| game, it's just for show, but man they are complex beasts
| clearly.
|
| Then again, I can definitely see the value of at least some of
| these features. Like you spend an inordinate amount of time
| just making sure you get maximum yield from a field, while
| keeping costs low, so having a screen tell you how much fuel
| you're consuming per turn or whatever is actually pretty
| useful.
|
| Anyway, I absolutely agree - farmers are incredible! I have a
| whole new appreciation for farming equipment and farmers in
| general, just from playing this silly game.
| bombcar wrote:
| I wonder how much it is like an aircraft - many many many
| dials and knobs, all with there purpose, but only a few
| needed in _normal_ operation, or used once or twice a trip.
| dguest wrote:
| I assumed the purpose on an aircraft is a bit different:
| you don't want a "check engine" light to go on when you are
| 10 miles from the nearest landing strip. Probably a bit
| more detail is useful when a stalled engine means 50% odds
| of survival.
| vvanders wrote:
| It's more of operating vs using, we had a CUT and there
| were situations where you want the control(diff lock,
| split brakes to turn in-place, etc).
|
| Hydraulics and attachments open up almost an endless
| possibilities.
| samstave wrote:
| The Farmers Almanac! is a treasure.
| AuryGlenz wrote:
| This is going to sound mean, but do you actually know any
| farmers?
|
| At least in my area, they aren't exactly known to be geniuses.
| The ones that have built up their business by buying out other
| farms and have tons of acres and employees? Sure. The usual
| "inherited the family farm" type? Not so much.
|
| They have two small periods during the year where they're up
| before sunrise and stop working after sundown, assuming they
| live in an area with one harvest. Overall they work a hell of a
| lot less than most of us, and have more money. I have a friend
| that owns a business where he sells side-by-sides, four
| wheelers, snowmobiles, etc. The amount that many spend by
| buying all the newest toys every year is incredible.
|
| The downside, of course, is that you need to be born in to it.
| A tiny 100 acre farm's land is worth north of 1 million
| dollars, not to mention a ton of other startup costs. Land
| isn't for sale very often, as usually at least one child wants
| to take it up. I don't even know how you'd approach starting
| from scratch unless you were already rich.
|
| Note: I'm referring to crop farmers. Animals are hard work and
| I don't understand why any small time farmer still does it.
| orenlindsey wrote:
| People who just inherit a farm and get other people to run it
| aren't farmers.
| carlosjobim wrote:
| That's how most farming has been arranged since the
| invention of agriculture.
| randomdata wrote:
| Not so. By definition, both in common usage and legally,
| the farmer is the owner. The farmer may also work in the
| operation, but that is not a strict requirement.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| Calling someone who owns land and hires people to work it
| a farmer is like calling someone who owns a factory a
| "factory worker". In some technical sense maybe it's
| correct, but that's not what people mean when they use
| the term.
| randomdata wrote:
| Not at all. Again, farmer refers to the owner. This is
| echoed in the dictionary as well as what is written in
| law.
|
| The word people use for what you describe is _farmhand_.
| It is the farmhand who works on a farm. The farmhand is
| the agricultural equivalent of a factory worker. Indeed,
| someone who owns a farm, but does not work on it, would
| not be considered a farmhand, but they most definitely
| would be a farmer.
|
| It is technically possible for one to be both a farmer
| and a farmhand, but being a farmer does not imply that
| one is also a farmhand. They are distinct roles.
| wharvle wrote:
| "Factory worker" is more like "farm hand". It _would_ be
| weird for a farm owner to give that answer, when asked
| what their job is.
| rascul wrote:
| > Animals are hard work and I don't understand why any small
| time farmer still does it.
|
| I guess it depends on the animal, and how many. I work
| sometimes on a hobby farm with around 30 pineywoods cattle
| and they're almost maintenance free. The hay is more work
| than those cattle and basically all we do for that is drive
| tractors around for a few days, a few times a year.
| bluGill wrote:
| My impression is young farmers without land start with
| Animals because you can do it. Animals can live on land that
| cannot be farmed for row crops, and need much less land to
| make some money. so you buy some land - a few acres - then
| raise animals on that while working a day job someplace to
| pay the bills. As land becomes available you buy it, but
| sticking with animals as that is what you know. after 20
| years of this you have enough trust with the banks to buy
| some row crop field that goes on sale. Another 10 years and
| you finally are earning enough from the farm to live without
| the other job and 10 more years and you can retire - letting
| your kids inherit a nice income from the mostly paid off farm
| (or sell the farm and retire to a nice life)
| frogpelt wrote:
| And of course, as usual, the truth is somewhere in the
| middle.
|
| Farmers aren't all geniuses, but they also aren't mostly lazy
| idiots like you depict them to be.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin (and I knew plenty of
| crop farmers as well, of course), and frankly none of what
| you said is congruent with my own experience. As orenlindsey
| said, farmers are generally smart people who have to juggle
| many hats and work their asses off in order to scrape out a
| very modest living. "Genius" is probably stretching a bit,
| but they aren't stupid laggards who get by on the inheritance
| they got from their parents the way you imply.
|
| > The downside, of course, is that you need to be born in to
| it. A tiny 100 acre farm's land is worth north of 1 million
| dollars, not to mention a ton of other startup costs. Land
| isn't for sale very often, as usually at least one child
| wants to take it up. I don't even know how you'd approach
| starting from scratch unless you were already rich.
|
| This is just flat out false. My dad started our farm (90
| acres) from scratch. He did it by working his ass off, often
| working two or three jobs, while living frugally and saving
| as much as he could for a down payment. Then he got a
| mortgage, just like most people do when they buy property.
| It's hard in the sense that saving money is always hard, but
| it's certainly not impossible and something where you can't
| pull it off without a helping hand from your parents.
| rndmize wrote:
| I disagree. Farming has been the default job in human society
| for thousands of years - and still is, even today. There's
| nothing special about farmers, they aren't geniuses, the work
| is not that difficult - it requires effort, care and
| perseverance.
|
| And this shouldn't be surprising. Farming is a very human
| activity, and can be done by pretty much any human. You don't
| need to be exceptional to do it. In fact it would be ridiculous
| if you did - imagine if only 1 in 50 people was brilliant
| enough to become a farmer - human civilization would never have
| gotten started.
|
| Praising something like this feels silly to me, much as when
| people talk about "being a mother is the hardest job" or
| similar. It's not. Being a mother is a common human experience,
| and most women go through it.
|
| This isn't to say such things shouldn't be celebrated. The idea
| of celebrations around harvest or motherhood is appealing to
| me, but there's nothing exceptional here, and there shouldn't
| be. Simple things, regular things, things everyone can do or
| goes through are worth celebrating, not just the exceptions,
| the geniuses, the stand-outs.
| baq wrote:
| Being a parent is definitely harder that being a software
| engineer if you want to do a good job. Same for being a
| farmer. It isn't the default job anymore for a reason.
|
| You could argue more women nowadays don't want to be mothers
| because it's hard. Especially if that's the second job and
| unpaid, actually _you_ have to pay lots of money to be a
| successful mother. So yeah, it 's exceptional... that anyone
| wants to have children at all! Though that's quickly
| changing, too.
| rndmize wrote:
| > Being a parent is definitely harder that being a software
| engineer if you want to do a good job. Same for being a
| farmer. It isn't the default job anymore for a reason.
|
| There's a difference between hard = effort, and hard =
| difficulty. Most people struggle to understand software
| engineering concepts. If you do understand them, then the
| effort required to succeed at the job is less than
| parenting/farming/etc; but there's a reason software
| engineers are in the top 20% of the economic ladder and
| picking vegetables on a farm is on the bottom.
|
| And at last check, subsistence farming was still the
| default job worldwide. Perhaps things have changed in the
| last decade or two, but I have my doubts.
|
| (I'd also take issue on the idea of parenting being
| difficult, vs. good parenting, vs. newer cultural
| expectations on parents/education/helicoptering, vs. kids
| being free to roam etc etc., but that's a whole huge
| discussion on its own - and I think there's a pretty strong
| argument to be made that raising kids is not harder on
| either axis than having a job, but doing both at once is
| very difficult and forces an economic choice many women are
| making in favor of money.)
| randomdata wrote:
| As both a farmer and a software engineer, farming is
| _way_ harder - and I don 't mean in terms of effort. To
| your economic point, farming pays better too.
|
| Sure, neither is hard if you want to do it at subsistence
| level. Hell, I started programming at like 5 years old.
| Software development is the easiest endeavour a human can
| partake in - so easy, it is easily picked up by young
| children who can barely read. Anyone can build software.
|
| But I think it is far to say that building robust,
| reliable, performant, and scalable software that
| satisfies a market need is a different story. And same
| goes for farming. If you want to farm at a level beyond
| subsistence, that is when it becomes hard.
| ok_dad wrote:
| I was kinda with you up until you started talking out of your
| ass about parenting, it is probably the hardest job I've ever
| done in my life, and I have had various physically and/or
| mentally challenging jobs.
|
| The key to why parenting is such a hard job: it literally
| doesn't end for about two or more decades and you absolutely
| cannot quit or slack off on this gig, no matter what!
|
| Just because something "always has been" doesn't mean it's
| easy.
| rndmize wrote:
| > The key to why parenting is such a hard job: it literally
| doesn't end for about two or more decades and you
| absolutely cannot quit or slack off on this gig, no matter
| what!
|
| We might not like to admit it, but people can and do, all
| the time. There's an ideal as far as being a parent goes
| that we try to hold people to and enforce culturally - but
| that doesn't stop people from getting divorces or dumping
| their kids on their partner or parents while they go off
| and do their own thing. I know a number of people that more
| or less raised themselves - their parents provided
| necessities and that was about it.
|
| There's also a larger discussion to be had on parenting and
| why it takes more time and effort than past generations;
| the difficulty of raising kids with two working parents;
| the move away from extended family groups and close
| neighbors that can help with kids; the increase in
| helicoptering/worrying and loss of independence; all of
| which contributes to making things more difficult.
|
| > Just because something "always has been" doesn't mean
| it's easy.
|
| I never said it was easy. What I said was it's not the
| hardest job, it's a common human experience, and it
| deserves celebrating even if it is an average, common
| thing.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| Don't worry, he's talking out of his ass about farming as
| well.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| > There's nothing special about farmers, they aren't
| geniuses, the work is not that difficult
|
| This is absolutely laughable. The work is incredibly
| difficult. It literally destroys your body, every old farmer
| I've ever known has a heap of medical issues from having to
| do a lifetime of physical labor. It may not be
| _intellectually_ difficult, but it 's very difficult work.
| baq wrote:
| Don't forget futures traders.
| throwaway894345 wrote:
| A decade ago I worked on the first version of the (current
| generation of the) main touch screen in John Deere equipment. I
| haven't watched the full video, but you can see it in some of
| the clips. Neat to think that some code I wrote a decade ago is
| likely still running on these things.
| m3kw9 wrote:
| The farmer uses the tech, the engineers at Deere developed it
| because that want farmer asked for
| maxglute wrote:
| I mean does it have to?
|
| Looks like slapping a bunch of hardware to circumvent poor
| interoperability.
|
| And F35 cockpit has large single MFD, MFD setup of any 4+
| generation fighter is 2-3 screens for what I imagine to be more
| complicated missions.
| bluGill wrote:
| No, but this is a 10-20 year old planter where all the useful
| parts have been replaced with something from a different
| manufactures. Buy a new planter and more than half of those
| independent screens/controls go away. Buy a new tractor and
| another can go away. Buy a tractor and planter from the same
| manufacture and you can get down to just 1 (but realistically
| you have enough data to monitor that you would have 2-3).
|
| There is also the ISO11783 protocol which this tractor (which
| is at least 10 years old) has in the base model that could show
| everything, but the resolution available isn't really good and
| so while 3-5 controls could use that instead of a separate box,
| anything on a high resolution screen needs to stay. I don't
| know why the manufacture of those controls choose not to.
| AShyFig wrote:
| Is there anywhere I can anonymously upload an image to show off
| my own "spaceship tractor cab?" It's been awhile since I've
| tried, and it seems imgur no longer allows non-users to do this.
| erikig wrote:
| I've used postimg.cc in the past, links are still live and it
| seems pretty anonymous.
| TheNorthman wrote:
| Imgur should work fine. It at least does so for me.
|
| If not your style, https://imgbb.com is also an option. More
| ads, though
|
| But please do upload a picture. That would be interesting.
| AShyFig wrote:
| Thanks! Imgur worked on my desktop.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39195506
| TheNorthman wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| While at uni, I worked on a local fishing boat doing
| (amongst many things) hardware/software integration, and
| did some work on equipment communicating via NMEA. Very fun
| blast-to-the-past, didn't know the standard was used
| outside of marine environments.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| They talk about GPS guided tractors for planting vs. using a
| marker wheel. I'm surprised GPS is accurate enough for that; are
| they using something like DGPS to get the needed accuracy?
| FrankPetrilli wrote:
| GPS on its own especially with systems like WAAS is quite
| accurate these days, generally within a few meters. If you need
| more (which planting most crops does) there's also RTK [1],
| which permits centimeter-level accuracy from relatively
| inexpensive / simple setups. Here's an example of a local RTK
| base station with radio link in the industry [2], and
| additionally it's possible to get these corrections off cell
| network data connections [3]. Radio offers you more hyperlocal
| corrections which could improve accuracy a touch, but comes
| with all the downsides you'd expect of a local radio system so
| both are viable options.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-
| time_kinematic_positionin... [2]
| https://www.deere.com/en/technology-products/precision-ag-te...
| [3] https://www.deere.com/en/technology-products/precision-ag-
| te...
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Hmm, I always thought of RTK as including carrier-phase
| tracking, which would make it overkill for farming if the
| base-station is fixed (on the order of 2mm relative-position
| accuracy; absolute positional accuracy is not much better
| than DGPS without carrier phase-tracking). Wikipedia is
| ambiguous as to whether or not RTK necessarily includes
| carrier-phase tracking.
| supermatt wrote:
| GPS with RTK from a basestation. Get about 2.5cm accuracy.
| eschneider wrote:
| Tractors don't rely on _just_ GPS for planting, etc. They
| augment with some other technologies to get the necessary
| accuracy (a few cm of accuracy) for positioning.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I think it looks likes less like a space ship and looks closer to
| a modern music producer's work station.
| falcolas wrote:
| I was thinking NOC myself. One monitor per major system being
| monitored.
|
| Not a ton of space ship vibe (especially the Dragon, for
| example), just a lot of poorly integrated individual systems
| that each comes with their own monitor and control system.
| Which is maybe better than a tightly integrated system when it
| comes to farming implements.
| pbourke wrote:
| > Which is maybe better than a tightly integrated system when
| it comes to farming implements.
|
| He mentions swapping out components from last season a couple
| of times, so lack of integration is probably a feature.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I don't see how farmers can afford to not use this tech,
| but I also don't understand how they can afford them. We
| constantly told about the thin margins farmers work with,
| which seems like the math to afford the payments on these
| machines ever work out.
|
| It also seems like this is one of those things that buying
| the base model is never enough. There were two different
| types of row cleaners in the front of the towed unit. There
| were devices at the back of each row that also seem like an
| add-on. The thing that presses the seeds down, and then the
| _smart_ version that detected soil moisture and other info.
| Of course that 's one of those 'for a small nominal fee'
| type of add-ons. John Deere seems to figure out how to keep
| his hand in the farmer's pocket eternally
| rmason wrote:
| I left my career as an agronomist 25 years ago. That was around 8
| years into the precision ag revolution. It was great to view this
| video, we only dreamed of this sort of control while planting
| back then. Everything was manual and getting everything
| calibrated was a dusty job for the farmer, setting something
| climbing back into the tractor, going a couple of hundred feet
| and then getting out to make another change.
|
| Once you got everything dialed in you rarely made many changes,
| The ability to change field by field or even in a field to adopt
| to different soil types is nothing short of amazing. Lots of
| times an individual row would stop planting and you wouldn't
| notice.
|
| I worked a lot with satellite infrared photos and it wasn't
| uncommon to look at a field and see an entire row missing or
| planted at a half rate. I predict in time though a lot of these
| screens will become less important as your AI agent will be
| making all these sorts of adjustments for you.
| ballooney wrote:
| It feels like we're in a bit of a nadir, agriculturally, in terms
| of soil exhaustion and erosion, crop monocultures, and so on,
| largely because of technology letting you do the same thing to
| bigger areas more quickly and with fewer people, and we're
| reaching the end of the epoch where the cost of this can be
| blithely externalised.
|
| _However_, it seems like it could also be an inflection point,
| again because of technology. Imagine if tractors could tow behind
| them not a spraying trailer but a computer vision + laser system
| that could identify and zap individual weeds rather than
| napalming the whole ecosystem chemically, or that had arms that
| could pick only the correct, or ripe crop, or sub-varietal of
| crop, on a field planted with a variety of useful plants that
| balanced out the intensity with which they extracted nutrients
| from the soil. All of this at the cost/scale required to support
| the 8 billion (or so) people on the earth now with the
| agricultural land we have now, but perhaps too with the ability
| to open up more marginal bits of land to agriculture, and de-
| intensify the current wrung-to-death expanses of flat that we
| have to use now to accommodate the limitations of current farm
| machinery.
| pests wrote:
| > a computer vision + laser system that could identify and zap
| individual weeds rather than napalming the whole ecosystem
| chemically
|
| > arms that could pick only the correct, or ripe crop, or sub-
| varietal of crop, on a field planted with a variety of useful
| plants
|
| I've seen demos for both of these in the last year or two.
| bluGill wrote:
| Modern farmers using the best practices are building back soil
| not exhausting it. The typical practice since about 1980-1990
| was holding the line, but research has found to how build up
| soil and a few farmers are employing it.
|
| While lasers are not used (yet?) you can now get sprayers that
| will spray chemical only on weeds and not the rest of the
| field. Or more likely you apply herbicide at a low dose across
| the whole field and then a high dose (possibly different
| chemical) where there is a weed.
| Animats wrote:
| > Imagine if tractors could tow behind them not a spraying
| trailer but a computer vision + laser system that could
| identify and zap individual weeds.
|
| It exists. [1][2]. Robotic tractor, vision system, multiple
| 150W CO2 lasers. There is no such thing as overkill. It's
| really cool. "Certified Organic".
|
| A more practical approach is See and Spray.[3] Cameras and deep
| learning are taught to recognize and target enemy weeds. The
| sprayer has a valve for each nozzle, and it only zaps the
| weeds. Uses far less pesticide. For some crops a zap of spray
| fertilizer is used. The weeds overdose and die. That's now a
| John Deere product.
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Mma8IOEzc [2]
| https://carbonrobotics.com/
|
| [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-EFtTa6IU&
| ozim wrote:
| Well yeah GIT command line is insufferable interface it should be
| much simpler /s
| AShyFig wrote:
| For those who are curious, here is the office view of my own
| "Spaceship tractor cab." https://imgur.com/a/ebUlEVy
|
| Devices:
|
| Tractor - 1979 Versatile 875. Indestructible. Used for planting
| with a 40' air seeder.
|
| Trimble 500 - This is now a redundant GPS receiver which provides
| a special NEMA string to the device below it. Will stay in
| operation until I can figure out how to reliably duplicate said
| string via the primary GPS.
|
| PF3000 - Old reliable. This computer allows rudimentary tracking
| of loads to allow for seed and fertilizer rate experiments. Data
| is saved to a CF card for later transfer to SMS Basic or QGIS.
|
| CF-D1 Tablet - This handy bright touchscreen handles the signal
| from the primary GPS and RTK towers. It communicates with various
| sensors and a DC motor to steer the machine. Runs AgOpenGPS, a
| incredible godsend of a project which allows these kind of
| autosteer retrofits on old tractors for dirt cheap.
|
| Various camera screens to monitor the operations of an Air
| Seeder. You know what's cheaper and more reliable than airflow
| and runout sensors? Cameras. :) Hopefully I'll be able to upgrade
| these to IP cameras this spring, but for now they're all various
| brands of cheap wired "backup cameras."
|
| Agtron sensor monitor (canbus I think?) - This is supposed to
| monitor shaft RPMS and other various functions for the Air
| Seeder. It kinda works, but most functions are broken.
|
| AtomJet Aux Hydraulic system - Allows older tractors to handle
| newer more intensive implements.
|
| AgopenGPS control board (V2.. I think) - Takes Wheel Angle sensor
| data, GPS data, and Motion sensor Data, stews it all up on an
| Arduino nano and feeds that to the steeringwheel motor.
|
| Ardusimple GPS RTK2B - Primary GPS receiver and NEMA string
| generator.
|
| Not pictured - A streamdeck MK2 set up to control AgOpenGPS
| functions. Of dubious usefulness. :)
|
| Other future upgrades - Replacing the main hydraulic manifold
| block with electronic solenoids. This should allow AgOpenGPS to
| raise and lower the implement automatically, as well as control
| various functions of the air seeder. One more step on the road to
| total automation!
| dtgriscom wrote:
| I looove learning about technology that I don't usually come into
| contact with.
|
| My dad was a doctor, and subscribed to the New England Journal of
| Medicine. The articles were opaque ("Defective Regulation of
| Inflammatory Mediators in Hodgkin's Disease -- Supernormal Levels
| of Chemotactic-Factor Inactivator"??), but the ads were
| marvelous. Ultracentrifuges! Gel electrophoresis! Confocal
| microscopes! Electrosurgial units! Blood gas analyzers! Catnip
| for this budding engineer.
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