Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This conversation with Avinash Baskaran of the Precision Agronomy Research Center (PARC) (parccommons.org/people.html) explores how open hardware, mobile labs, autonomous machines, and field-deployable science can transform agriculture, health, and infrastructure. From watershed mapping and open microscopes to exoskeletons, drones, and autonomous skid steers, we examine how advanced capabilities can be made accessible outside of centralized institutions. This session reflects the nature of the Future Builders Academy open source civilization engineering curriculum—designed not just for engineers, but for builders, farmers, students, and anyone who has never even heard the term “mechanical engineer,” yet wants the power to understand, create, and deploy the systems that shape the world.
We discussed:
*Open source skid steer
* Peripheral neuropathy
* Mobile health for humans
* Mapping watershed - for local farms - for e coli
* Integrated Ag EcoTech Program
* Rapidly deployable mobile lab
* Agronomy R&D
* Design and Deployment of mobile labs
* Avinash Baskaran location
* Open source health practice experts
* Dr. Azad - contact - open source health
* Eve Mazon - military hospital. Prosthetics & orthotics.
* Exoskeleton technology - for aging
* Figure Robotics - figure.ai
* ½ dozen papers that we have on open flexure as agriculture platform
* Open flexure microscope. Ex - fecal contamination.
* Incubator - question is - combine process into a modern vet medicine program
* Board member for PARC
* Visual odometry drone - can do a topo map. Let’s get a topo map and workflow for skid steer
* Foundation element - demo video - converting visual data into
* LORAWAN - long range wireless network. Lit review
* Using inductive charging from power lines
* Large PnP - automated skid steer workflow
* 1 Autonomous skid steer - visual odometry
* 2 cohacking on the skid steer design
* Dronecoria - for highest capacity
* Dronecoria - certification.oshwa.org/es000054.html. Could be made of wood
* Aluminum
* instructables.com/Dronecoria-Drone-for-Forest-Restoration
* Small fab lab - 3d printer, cnc torch table, CNC
* Mobile lab and mobile structures development
* Drone - self powered autonom. both aerial and skid steer
* Charging site - autonomous farming
* Autonomous surveillance - for pine forests
* Security cameras
* openflexure.org/projects/microscope
* dronecoria.org
This conversation with Avinash Baskaran of the Precision Agronomy Research Center (PARC) (parccommons.org/people.html) explores how open hardware, mobile labs, autonomous machines, and field-deployable science can transform agriculture, health, and infrastructure. From watershed mapping and open microscopes to exoskeletons, drones, and autonomous skid steers, we examine how advanced capabilities can be made accessible outside of centralized institutions. This session reflects the nature of the Future Builders Academy open source civilization engineering curriculum—designed not just for engineers, but for builders, farmers, students, and anyone who has never even heard the term “mechanical engineer,” yet wants the power to understand, create, and deploy the systems that shape the world.
We discussed:
*Open source skid steer
* Peripheral neuropathy
* Mobile health for humans
* Mapping watershed - for local farms - for e coli
* Integrated Ag EcoTech Program
* Rapidly deployable mobile lab
* Agronomy R&D
* Design and Deployment of mobile labs
* Avinash Baskaran location
* Open source health practice experts
* Dr. Azad - contact - open source health
* Eve Mazon - military hospital. Prosthetics & orthotics.
* Exoskeleton technology - for aging
* Figure Robotics - figure.ai
* ½ dozen papers that we have on open flexure as agriculture platform
* Open flexure microscope. Ex - fecal contamination.
* Incubator - question is - combine process into a modern vet medicine program
* Board member for PARC
* Visual odometry drone - can do a topo map. Let’s get a topo map and workflow for skid steer
* Foundation element - demo video - converting visual data into
* LORAWAN - long range wireless network. Lit review
* Using inductive charging from power lines
* Large PnP - automated skid steer workflow
* 1 Autonomous skid steer - visual odometry
* 2 cohacking on the skid steer design
* Dronecoria - for highest capacity
* Dronecoria - certification.oshwa.org/es000054.html. Could be made of wood
* Aluminum
* instructables.com/Dronecoria-Drone-for-Forest-Restoration
* Small fab lab - 3d printer, cnc torch table, CNC
* Mobile lab and mobile structures development
* Drone - self powered autonom. both aerial and skid steer
* Charging site - autonomous farming
* Autonomous surveillance - for pine forests
* Security cameras
* openflexure.org/projects/microscope
* dronecoria.org
