This is incredibly fascinating stuff. If you’ve seen (or better yet, heard the audio narration of) The Martian, this TED Talk will sound familiar.
There are amazing things happening in the technologies of the Internet of Things, Big Data, and advanced agricultural engineering. The concept of the “food computer” brings them all together.
I’m looking forward to building one of my own (the OpenAG Build page says version 2 is coming, but I’ll probably start with the current version). I’ve been waiting to find a Maker-style project to work on, and this looks like it’ll combine my love of hardware and software.