--- title: An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen By AI | daily.dev description: A hobbyist project by Gerd Nicolay turns a simple tomato pot into a fully automated, AI-monitored farm. The system uses four AI models collaborating on camera... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/an-interactive-tomato-farm-overseen-by-ai-xlkm7gmqv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen By AI | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist project by Gerd Nicolay turns a simple tomato pot into a fully automated, AI-monitored farm. The system uses four AI models collaborating on camera... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/an-interactive-tomato-farm-overseen-by-ai-xlkm7gmqv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xlkm7gmQV.png og:image:alt: An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen By AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen By AI **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist project by Gerd Nicolay turns a simple tomato pot into a fully automated, AI-monitored farm. The system uses four AI models collaborating on camera feeds, humidity, and environmental data to make care decisions for individual tomatoes. It also logs a narrative storyline for each growing cycle. The farm is publicly accessible online, and visitors can even submit recommendations to the AI council via a web browser. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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