Dex Calloway

Building robots for backyard farms.

AI predator detection, chicken cams, feeders, drones, broken prototypes.

[Dex Calloway @RoboHomestead]

@DudespostingWs But can the crows be trusted

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This but the crows are robots

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.

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@istvan_csanady How about from a prompt

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@MarioNawfal I also don't want to sell plz bring gifts

[Dex Calloway @RoboHomestead]

small backyard farms are the answer

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

I really don't want to be vegan.

Because actually I have no problem with killing animals for food - it's just the way of the world.

I don't even really mind torturing animals for food - as long as they're low cognition (fish, insects, etc)

However - I really don't want to participate in the active (often life long) torture of high cognition animals like pigs.

Chickens are pretty dumb, but I'm not down with stuffing them into small cages their whole lives to peck at each other.

Not ok with dairy cow-calf separation.

And the more you look into it, the more you realize that humane sources of meat, dairy, and eggs are VERY hard to come by. Buying the more expensive brand at the grocery store does not imply torture free.

If you're eating bacon, an egg, cheese from a random restaurant - you are participating and enabling animal torture.

These labels "vegan", "vegetarian", "pescatarian" don't work for me. A vegetarian who eats dairy and eggs still participates in torture.

I would lustfully eat a steak that had a good life, or an egg from a non-factory farm.

For all the daily political bullshit that happens - the torture of billions of animals is so rarely discussed.

[Dex Calloway @RoboHomestead]

full parts (minus luckfox board and video)

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maybe a little too big on the dispenser v2 motor replacement

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20 peppers and squash planted yesterday

Someone dug up all but two over night

Where's predator defense for gardens

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@garrytan Easy to be the first and in denial

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@gregcello does it work?

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@thsottiaux I’m getting addicted to these resets tho

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@ruben_kostard ForgeCAD vs FreeCAD?

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@mfranz_on Modeling my next drone version with codex driving freecad as we speak

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@sama What my wife wants for dinner

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@KenPaxtonTX this is what we get for relying on centralized mass farm pipelines for our food

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@Mathew_Winters1 everyone should produce the bulk of their own food

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@AlpacaAurelius what if a cow roams into your hunting ground 👀

[Dex Calloway @RoboHomestead]

@SecKennedy @LauraDelano just hang out on the farm for a few weeks

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@droplands cameraman was shocked it actually took off

[Dex Calloway @RoboHomestead]

This should have been a 1ft hop but the drone thought it was at -14ft altitude when it started, so it actually hopped 15ft

Adding some safety checks so we don't accidentally go to the moon

[droplands @droplands]

We have autonomous liftoff (and landing)

Look out hawks