Hey all.  Thanks for tuning in.  I just wanted to let people know about the documentation progress that has been made recently.  As I’ve said many times, one of the major goals on this project is to be as adoptable and user friendly as possible.

The complete build instructions have not been pictured and captioned yet, but it’s mostly there.  Recently there have been large additions to the “Controller Assembly”, “Getting It Running!”, and “A Walk Through” sections.  Also, the parts needed to complete an analog sensor have been added to the Parts page.  I hope you find this stuff useful.  Feel free to read through it and give me feedback or ideas on how to make it as user friendly as possible.

Several people have mentioned wanting to help with the controller code.  I just wanted to let people know that the controller code is in completed alpha state and working but is currently getting less attention because this instruction page is being perfected.  Once the full System Controller creation process is documented well and easy to walk through, I will start putting more time into the code on GitHub for the System Controller.

Thanks and Enjoy!

That’s right.  The System Controller 4 project has just accepted its first code contribution from the community.  The pull request was merged just recently and marks a major step in the progress from version 3 to version 4 of the controller.  A major goal of version 4 is that it be as adoptable by the community as possible and as easy as possible for developers to contribute.

Recently, at a BioHack Austin Meet-Up at Austin’s Brave New Books, a backer of our first KickStarter for Robot Gardener 3 came to see our progress.  He was happy to see our progress and wanted to know what he could do to help.  It turns out that he is a great python programmer and has just pushed some development tools to our github repo that will help the code be more adaptable for developer to contributes.  His name is Rémy and his github handle is @rgreinho. Thanks Rémy for your input, and we welcome any more constructive input.