Over the last few months of COVID madness I've been keeping myself sane by doing a lot of DIY projects.
Our apartment in the center of Tel Aviv has a large outdoor open terrace and covered balcony that has given me man cave space despite the uber-urban location.
It is a new apartment so there is a lot of work to do to make it home.
I'm going to mainly tell this story in pictures.
The new DIY Phillips Hue Ensis light I built.
Essential 3D printing software and the crucial end pieces of the light.
The end result - hanging in our kitchen.
And another longer version hanging in our outside dining area (with man cave work area and tools visible).
Done while juggling twins!
And a crazy 2.5 year old
as well as two teenage children.
Essential tools
3D printer - Ender 3 Pro - Life changing addition to my tool set.
Serious hammer drill.
(Our apartment is all concrete construction so you need a big drill to attach anything to it.)
Big DIY Project - Raised Bed Vegetable Garden with robot gardener (Farm.bot)
Setting out
First two layers with cross support
3D Printed corner brackets
Waterproofing and drainage
Ensuring top layer of wood is 100% straight and level to act as rail for robotic gardener.
Raised bed structure complete.
Transporting 150 bags of soil from street level using kids' prams.
Reuse of material from pallet bags as waterproofing.
Gravel bags ready.
My daughter loved playing on the soil bags.
Gravel level complete.
2/3rds full with soil with drip irrigation installed.
Raised bed garden complete.
Farm.bot Gardening Robot delivered.
Opening the box.
Gardening Robot installed.
I'll be doing a more detailed post on my gardening robot once I've got it 100% working.
I hope you've enjoyed a glimpse into my man cave.
Wow, some pretty cool projects there! I'm pretty curious about the gardening robot!
I'll be providing a lot more details in a future post.
Just trying to sort out some teething issues with the robot first.
Funny ones of frustrating annoying ones?
A bit of both.
With these things its annoying at the time and funny afterwards, once you've solved the issue.
That is looking great and I am interested in the gardening robot - we are on 1100m2, how much slaving can I give it? ;D
The Farm.bot's max width is 3m and max length is 18m.
Damn that looks good :)
Wow. I love all these Creativity among all things. It is awesome to be special in every way more purposely when it comes to the mindset for who you are. To be candid. You did a great job yeah. I must confess. I love your deep hardwork.its pays.
Gardening Robot!! Fantastic I can't wait to see it in action - picture heavy updates are great 👍
Wow what a great project, great blend of high tech and low tech, with the soil.
Firstly, I hope you had a lift, I know how sapping it can be lifting bags of compost etc. upstairs, I used to have a balcony set up myself.
Love the robot.
I'm surprised you didn't go for a hydroponic, or even an aquaponic system rather than soil, it would seem a more natural fit for the tech.?
Yes, I had a lift but it still involved getting 150 bags of soil from the street, into the building, into and out of the lift, down the corridor, into our apartment, through it and out onto our terrace.
The farmbot is designed for a soil based system and it also needs to be a nice looking feature on our terrace. I already have a drop irrigation system with fertizer from our Home Biogas system providing liquid fertilizer.