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A Japanese broccoli farmer with no engineering background used OpenAI's Codex to build custom DIY automation tools for his 100-hectare farm, including remote greenhouse vent control and temperature monitoring.

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects. my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant. but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself. here's what he's built on his own: > remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers > a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot > satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields > an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors > wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for. but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol
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i’m obsessed with AI DIY projects.

my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm

this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.

but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn’t afford, he just built the tools himself.

here’s what he’s built on his own:

remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers

a bot that checks each greenhouse’s temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot

satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields

an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors

wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo

stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.

but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol

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