Beiträge von Harald T

This looks really good so far! Looking forward for the rest. Keep it up!

Thanks, guys!

If I get time between all of my other projects, I might be adding some other details like wiring and switches. I also light making lighting, so in the future, there might be some lights as well. Time will show what more gets added. At the moment the barn is in Sweden and getting set-up for an agricultural exhibition there. Later in October it will be displayed in Stavanger, Norway on the exhibition called Agrovisjon. Lastly it will be displayed at EuroTier as mentioned earlier. It is fun when TKS likes the model and wants to show it at their stand. It gives them a chance to show their feeding system in action.

Great work on your diorama and buildings! It looks really good so far.

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Wow, these Details. Great work, Harald!

Thanks, Alexander! I love making the small details.

It's been a while since I updated here, but the last couple of months there have been some changes to the barn. I have made new equipment for the feeding system, replacing the FeedHopper with a KUHN/TKS FeedMixer and a TKS R2 Magazine for whole round bales. I have also made some new details around inside the rest of the barn.

I have made a new video showing the barn. First it shows the new equipment, then it shows the rest of the barn for those who haven't seen it yet.

Here are some pictures with a little explanation to each picture.

This is the new equipment mounted in the feeding central/feeding room.
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KUHN/TKS FeedMixer. I have made this myself by 3D-printing the main body, and building the frame and details from scratch with styrene plastic.
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Detail view of the motor and weight cell monitor. It is just a water slide decal.
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This "box" communicates with the FeedRobot and tells the mixer when to start and stop mixing, and when to open the door so the feed drops to the conveyor and then into the FeedRobot.
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The round bale magazine. This has a capacity of two round bales, but if you load one first and then drop it into the FeedRobot, you can store two on the magazine while having one in the robot. So the system has a capacity of three bales.
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One of the figures have been moved to the Moving Floor Single box. By placing this figure here, I think it shows really good that this box is not automatic, but you have to pull the lever he is holding back and forth to move the floor. This is usually done once or twice per day.
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I have added some details behind the Moving Floor Group box. I made a milk separation unit, so that the VMS milking robot sends the non-normal milk here for the calfs to drink, or directly to waste. The sink and buckets are 3D-printed in ABS plastiv and have got an acetone treatment. That way the surface looks like casted plastic parts.
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I also made some other details by 3D-printing. This is different types of soap from DeLaval. After acetone-treatment I added water slide decals which I have made so they are as close to the real thing as I could get.
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I modified one of the figures a bit and added some rope between the calf that is coming out and the figure so it looks like he helps the calf by pulling it out.
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All the cows have now received some earmarks made to look like the ones used here in Norway. I have not made an individual number for every single cow, but I made six different numbers, and paid attention to which cows got the different numbers, so the cows next to each other don't have the same number.
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Hope you like the video and pictures!

For those of you visiting EuroTier in November, this barn will be displayed at TKS's booth, next to KUHN in hall 27. It is stand number 27G15.

This is really beautiful pictures! They blend nicely into the background, and diorama is also great!

This is really amazing! You have created so many great details, and the weathering of the tractor and concrete is outstanding!

Thank you, Korbinian!

Thanks again, Stefan! I always like to do things as realistic as possible, so therefore I often use a lot more time than I need, just to get it perfect.

Some of the upcoming plans are to finish the milking system. Now I don't have any tubing from the VMS to the tank, so thats up next. I also need to do some small repair work on the rails for the FeedRobot. Two of the pillars have broken off, and a few more are loose after the shipping to and from exhibitions. I have now ordered a new shipping box that will protect the barn a lot better than now. So there is still work to be done. I believe I will never be completely finished with this barn. There will always be more details I can make, and I find that inspiring.

Thanks a lot, Stefan!

Yesterday I made a new video, showing the newest features of the farm. This includes the feeding central, calf area and some other small details as well.

I have also attached a photo of the new calf area, and a photo from Agroteknikk, the largest agriculture exhibition in Norway.

This dioarma is coming nicely along. I like your garage. Keep it up, I am curious on the continuing of the diorama.

I am impressed by your diorama! It looks really good with lots of nice details. The grass is also really nice. Everything looks very realistic and you have taken beautiful pictures as well.

This looks really great! You have a great attention to detail.

Sorry for answering so late, but thanks for the nice comments, Korbinian and Hermann!

The barn is now ready for exhibitions. It was picked up on monday 5^th October where I live and taken to TKS's factory in Jæren (west coast of Norway, just south of Stavanger). I traveled to their factory last Friday, one week ago and taught them in setting it up for exhibitons and taking it back down to transport "mode". I also did some small repairs as some small things had been destroyed in the transportation. I also made some improvements to the barn, so that it could be transported safer. As you can see in some of the pictures I have made a transportation box that also works as an exhibition table. The barn is transported inside the box, and when it shall be exhibited it is taken out and put on top.

TKS also said that I needed a Plexiglas cover on top. A company in Tønsberg in Norway has made this, but it was ordered with a tight time schedule so it was sent directly to TKS, instead of home to me. It arrived at TKS's factory after I left, so I haven't had the opportunity to see it live myself yet, but they told me it fits perfectly. You can see a picture below that I got from the company that made it, before they sent it.

During my visit at TKS's factory I also added some more details like doors and some decals. Unfortunately I didn't have time to take any good pictures, so I just upload the ones I took. The barn is now on its way to Sweden to be exhibited at Elmia Lantbruk Djur och Inomgård. It is an exhibition about farm animals and indoor farming equipment like feeding systems, milking systems, manure systems etc. This exhibition is taking place in Jönköping, Sweden 21^st-24^th October. It is TKS that is showing it at their stand, to show how their systems look like in a barn. They have also brought full size equipment, but with my model barn they can show how the FeedRobot actually works, as they can not simulate this with full-size models at an exhibition.

After this exhibition TKS will show it at Agroteknikk in Lillestrøm, Norway. This exhibition is very similar to Agritechnica, but smaller, since it is mainly a Norwegian exhibition, not an international exhibition like Agritechnica. Agroteknikk is one of Norway's largest agricultural exhibitions. The plan was actually that TKS was supposed to show it at Agritechnica with Kuhn, but it was unfortunately cancelled in the last minute. Therefore they are showing it at Elmia instead.

The Plexiglas cover to protect against curious people that want to touch.
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Some of the doors in the making.
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I have added a wall in the back of the FeedRobot to better fit with the system I have now. It was originally made for another filling. The idea was to use roundbales, fed in from the back, but as you see in the earlier pictures it is now filled from above. Therefore I need this backwall.
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The transportation box in transport mode. The barn is now inside the box.
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The black textile cover is taken out and placed over the box.
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Here is a picture from my home where the barn is ontop. This is how it will look like in exhibitions, except it will also be the Plexiglas protection/cover over the barn.
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This really looks great!

Thanks! Here is the first test of the sound. https://goo.gl/photos/A7Y8sfE3ZFxaT8u79

Some kind farmers here in Norway recorded sound from their barns that I have mixed into a soundtrack of approximately 15 minutes. I have added some extra cow moo's since there were quite few of them. This makes it a bit more interesting to listen to. I have also taken advantage of the stereo function of the speakers. This means that I have edited the soundtrack, so that the sound from the milking robot just comes from the speaker close to it. This makes a nice effect since it feels like the sound comes from the robot, and not just from the barn.

Vielen dank, Marc und Phillip!

Here comes a new update. I'm sorry it took so long, but I haven't forgot you. I wanted to do the things I have been working on finished, before I updated this thread. Now the feeding system is almost complete. All the components and machines are made and painted. You have already seen some pictures of the prototype of the FeedHopper, but I have now made a new one that is almost finished expect for some minor details. The same is for the conveyor as well. Regarding the FeedRobot, I have added more decals and added a home position for it. After struggling for a long time, I finally found out how to write the correct code, so that it reverses back to the home position button each time it enters back in the feeding central. This means that it starts in the same position each time. Previously I just moved the FeedRobot to the start position and started it. It then moved back and forth, but after 20 minutes, there had been small belt slips for each run so it either had moved too far back so it missed the feeding positions, or it collided with the wall. Now this problem is solved.

I have also finished and painted the milk tank. The only thing missing here is a DeLaval decal and some tubing from the milking robot.

In addition to the things mentioned above, I have added some speakers under the floor and also made things a little "cleaner" in the technical room. This means I have fastended the Arduino-board and other electrical components to the walls and fastened most of the wiring to make it look better and also more reliable, since it is less likely the wiring will loosen.

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Sorry for the bad lighting in the following pictures of the feeding central.
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Here you see the speakers. They are not visible when the floor is on top, but the sound passes nicely through the floor. I will record the sound from a real barn and play this in the background during exhibitons. This way it feels more realistic with cow sounds and maybe pressured air sound from the VMS.
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This looks really good! You have had a lot of work with all those windows, but they turned out nice.

Wow, the lights really make the building beautiful in the dark. Nice with some electrical details as well.:)