August 2020 - Nut Measurement
Project
This year I undertook an industry wide nut measurement project for
the purposes of crop forecasting.
August 2020 - Other Things -
DIY Pick & Place for SMDs
The method I use for placing small SMD components on PCBs.
August 2020 - Other Things - My
Reflow Recipe
The toaster oven recipe I use for reflow soldering.
May 2019 - Drone Mapping video
Shows mapping software creating a map on a drive through of an
orchard block.
March 2018 - NIS Sorter Initial
Accuracy Testing
Initial repeatability test results.
August 2017 - Smart Enough
Podcast
I had a chat with the boys at the Smart Enough to Know Better podcast, talking about robots and such. The podcast is an enjoyable take on a diverse range of things science-y.
You can find it here: smartenough.org
May 2017 - Nut in Shell (NIS)
Sorter/Scanner is Up!
This is a low volume high accuracy sorter that can also do high
resolution quality scans on NIS samples.
September 2016 - Two New Drone Harvester Videos
We are continuing to harvest our main crop with the drone. It took until early August to get various design faults fixed but it's now working very well.
April 2016 - Drone Plot Harvester, First Field Trial Video
It's still in early stages but this is the first video of a working drone harvester for macadamia. It is one of the few operational harvest drones in the world, for any crop.
April 2016 - In-Field Dehusker, First Field Trial Video
This works in tandem with the drone plot harvester allowing collection of individual tree nut-in-shell (NIS) yields with efficiency approaching a larger bulk harvester.
February 2016 - Geo-referenced Yield Map for Macadamia
This Google Earth compatible map plots yield vs canopy volume on a tree by tree basis over an area of ~2000 trees. It demonstrates the value of tree by tree resolution when applying Precision Agriculture techniques to tree crops.