FarmBot is designed to be a platform conducive to modification and extension, which can provide students with cross-disciplinary learning experiences covering hardware design, manufacturing, programming, electronics, and more.

In the following documentation pages, we share just a handful of ideas for student projects including adding new sensors and peripherals to FarmBot, or developing completely new tools compatible with the FarmBot Genesis UTM.

This FarmBot has been augmented with a weather station

This FarmBot has been augmented with a weather station

Example projects

Below are some example projects from university teams that have developed their own FarmBot tools.

Weed trimmer tool

A senior design team at the Liberty University School of Engineering partnered with FarmBot Inc to design and prototype a weed trimming tool.

This project was further developed by FarmBot Inc and commercialized in Genesis v1.6 with the introduction of the rotary tool.

Gripper tool

An interdisciplinary team of students at Curio, a vocational school in the Netherlands, have developed a prototype FarmBot gripper tool for harvesting crops.

Seeder pod tool

A senior design team at the Liberty University School of Engineering partnered with FarmBot Inc to design and prototype a seeder pod tool.

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