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Such brilliance should not unwatched go.....
Agreed. Engineers and accountants—on average cheapies.
Hopefully he’s smart enough to patent. Sounds like he could make some big payola for selling his technology.
My brother’s Father-in-Law is a 4th generation farmer. MBA and MS in Agricultural Economics. The tech setup these guys have is amazing. GPS guided tractors, satellite field imagery showing where fertilizer is best used, QR code tagged livestock, the whole shebang.
Here will come some liberal city council person to fine him for whatever like not getting permission or something.
Probably not SAFETY certified though -— and he will be responsible when the bins go up because a fan and a sensor fail simultaneously, causing a methane buildup, and then the “smart switches” finally get tripped in a methane/oxygen environment, and his family or workers are killed.
I post this as I sit in a PLC/SAFETY/ISO-26262 meeting.
Toyota paid 4 billion dollars for their bitflip error that caused Lexii to accelerate unbound.
Sometimes it is AOK to be cheap, other times, not so much.
Notice that this guy is an Engineer, go good ones, are all Cheap Charlie #10. Trained to be efficient in the use of time and materials. Waste not, want not.
One of our sons falls into that category, except his family members call him, “Cheap Bastard”!
His wife’s vehicle is a 14 year old GMC suv. His kids have 10 year old vehicles, and he drives a company truck.
He got an early inheritance on my 50 year old aluminum bass boat and still uses the same outboard motor he bought right after he got out of college. He uses this antique to duck hunt and fish for stripers in our local river.
When I go up to the bedroom in the summer, the fan, built into the roof, and working from a temperature regulator, is sometimes still running.
I flip the off/on switch in my walk in closet and then turn it back on in the AM.
I can't "look on my phone" because my bedroom phone, is still plugged into a wall jack, and there is no where to look.
My mobile phone is turned off and is sitting on my desk in my den, where I may or may not turn it back on {for the next coupla days}.
My 'smart phone' is so dumb, that it has never even been connected to google, and has taken just three pictures during its life span.
I still {but rarely} use an old device that used to be called a "camera".
My old 30-30, 30-06, other rifles, shotguns and various pistols are still in perfect working order, and are used more often than all of the phones in my home.
Technology — the new $40 irrigation timers for my garden are all wifi controlled.
Good ESP32 application.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
wireless sensor networking products
Too many people use incorrect vocabulary. ‘Cheap’ brings visions of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, eating gruel in a cold lonely room. In this case, Scrooge might just ignore aeration control and foolishly watch his harvested grain rot.
This farmer / engineer is, instead, frugal in use of his time and money. Say that he buys the commercially offered aeration control at $80k. Something goes wrong, what is his after-sale tech support and at what cost? His own system, built for 1/800th the cost, may have fewer ‘bells & whistles’ but, then again, his install may not need them. Failure of his system is his own responsibility and, like the build itself, costs him irreplaceable time & effort, aka ‘sweat equity’! Still, being the builder, he may find the fix faster that that help desk guy, Steve, in Bangalore (India)!
Just an opinion but I like frugal!
Jeremy Clackson of Top Gear fame has a new farming show.
He has spent a fortune buying what he needs to just start a farm. At least $250,000 pounds
I watch it on Amazon Prime using the ROKU box. 8 episodes. Interesting show.
Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘Honest’ Application for Farmer of The Year | Clarkson’s Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esTr4IqnXro