Open Agriculture Initiative – “Food Server” Chris Woodle ECE 2017

Background The Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) is an open-source community on a mission to create more farmers for the future of food production. OpenAg is building collaborative tools and platforms to develop an open-source ecosystem of food technologies that enables and promotes transparency, networked experimentation, education, and local production.” – MIT http://openag.media.mit.edu/background/

Overview Sample Computer datacenter in a shipping container Design and build scalable hardware that supports OpenAg in a 19-inch server rack form factor that could be deployed in a shipping container. This will include the modification and/or redesign of the existing hardware created by MIT (OpenAg Personal Food Computer, see below). The PFC is a small controlled environment used for growing plants and crops for consumption and research. Sample Computer datacenter in a shipping container

Team Less than a dozen people from any discipline. Agricultural/Sustainability: ~2 students Software: 2-3 Electrical: ~3 Mechanical: ~2 Biosystems/Biomedical: ~1 Summer 2017 availability would be ideal, but not required.

Software Looking for 2-3 team members with experience or willing to learn the following technologies: Linux Raspberry Pi Docker TypeScript (strongly typed JavaScript in NodeJS) GulpJS ExpressJS Mocha Web development/design using AngularJS MongoDB or CouchDB Maybe Redis Microsoft Azure or AWS Documentation with Markdown and other self documenting tools Tools: VSCode/Atom/Brackets etc Bitbucket, (Github for publishing) Maybe Trello Maybe Slack

Contact: Chris Woodle cwoodle2014@my. fit Contact: Chris Woodle cwoodle2014@my.fit.edu For current proposal document: https://app.box.com/v/woodle-openag-proposal