🌱 MyZubster Update: From the Good Samaritan Garden to Space Robots
Open Source · Community · IoT · Robotics · Space · XMR
MyZubster is continuing to evolve from a collection of experiments into a broader open-source ecosystem.
The latest update connects several very different areas:
- 🌱 a community garden application;
- 🔌 an I2C hardware adapter;
- 🤖 robot integrations;
- 🛸 a complete space-robot sector;
- 💳 privacy-focused payment experiments;
- 📍 preparation for TAZ DAY #1 in Riccione.
At first these projects may look unrelated.
They are not.
The common idea is to build small, independent modules that can communicate with each other and solve real-world problems.
🌱 App Orto del Buon Samaritano
One of the newest projects is the App Orto del Buon Samaritano.
The idea is simple: create a lightweight digital tool that can help volunteers coordinate a community or parish garden.
The current application allows users to:
- 🌿 add plants;
- 📅 record planting dates;
- 🍅 calculate an estimated harvest date;
- 📢 notify volunteers;
- 💾 store information locally;
- 📊 display basic statistics.
The application is intentionally simple.
It doesn't try to replace existing agricultural systems.
Instead, it demonstrates how an open-source ecosystem can create small tools for communities using accessible technologies.
Example workflow
Volunteer
↓
Add plant
↓
Record planting date
↓
Calculate harvest
↓
Notify volunteers
↓
Community garden
The project can later evolve toward IoT sensors, automated irrigation, weather information and AI-assisted recommendations.
🔌 Connecting Physical Hardware
The next step is connecting software to physical devices.
For this reason, MyZubster now includes an I2C adapter designed to communicate with hardware such as the Root Access SAO on the DEF CON 34 badge.
The adapter provides functionality for:
- scanning the I2C bus;
- detecting connected devices;
- probing individual addresses;
- sending commands;
- controlling animations;
- connecting hardware with robot modules.
The basic concept is:
Physical Device
↓
I2C
↓
MyZubster Adapter
↓
Robot / Application
↓
Gateway
This is important because an ecosystem cannot remain purely digital.
Sensors, badges, robots and other devices eventually need a common communication layer.
🤖 From Hardware to Robots
The same philosophy applies to the MyZubster robot ecosystem.
Instead of creating one giant robot application, different capabilities are implemented as independent modules.
For example:
Camera
↓
Vision Module
↓
Robot
↓
Gateway
↓
Application
A robot can therefore combine different technologies:
- computer vision;
- sensors;
- IoT communication;
- AI;
- payment services;
- remote commands;
- automation.
This modular architecture makes experimentation easier because individual components can be replaced without redesigning the entire system.
🛸 The Space Sector
Another major milestone is the completion of the Space Station sector.
The sector currently contains 10 conceptual robot modules:
| # | Robot | Bounty |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Core Module | 10 XMR |
| 2 | Satellite Communication | 8 XMR |
| 3 | Lunar Rover | 12 XMR |
| 4 | Astronaut AI | 6 XMR |
| 5 | Space Dashboard | 5 XMR |
| 6 | Space Gateway | 7 XMR |
| 7 | Debris Tracker | 4 XMR |
| 8 | Interplanetary Communications | 9 XMR |
| 9 | Life Support | 6 XMR |
| 10 | AI Core | 11 XMR |
Total: 78 XMR in the published bounty structure.
The important point is that these projects should be understood as software and simulation-oriented components, not as claims that MyZubster currently operates physical space infrastructure.
The objective is to explore how the same architecture could eventually model increasingly complex environments.
🌍 One Architecture, Different Environments
The interesting part of the project is the relationship between apparently different applications.
A garden can generate environmental data.
A robot can process that data.
An IoT device can transmit sensor information.
An AI module can analyze it.
A Gateway can coordinate the workflow.
A payment layer can represent a service or bounty.
The same architecture can then be simulated in another environment.
For example:
🌱 Garden
↓
📡 Sensors
↓
🤖 Robot
↓
🧠 AI
↓
🌐 Gateway
↓
💳 Payment
And eventually:
🛸 Space Station
↓
📡 Telemetry
↓
🤖 Space Robot
↓
🧠 AI Core
↓
🌐 Space Gateway
↓
💳 Digital Economy
The environment changes.
The architecture remains modular.
💳 Privacy-Focused Payments
Another component of the ecosystem is the experimentation with Monero (XMR) payments.
The goal is to explore how privacy-focused digital payments can interact with physical devices and automated services.
For example, a future interaction could look like:
User
↓
Robot / Device
↓
Payment Request
↓
XMR Payment
↓
Gateway Verification
↓
Service
This is particularly interesting for autonomous machines.
A robot shouldn't necessarily need a human operator to manually approve every individual transaction.
A Gateway can instead verify an event and allow the corresponding workflow to continue.
📍 TAZ DAY #1 — Riccione
All of these experiments are now moving toward a physical demonstration.
TAZ DAY #1 is planned for Riccione, Italy, in September 2026.
The event is intended to bring the different parts of the ecosystem into one physical environment.
Possible demonstrations include:
🤖 Fluffypony Smart
A robot bartender experiment combining robotics, sensors and computer vision.
🛡️ Hera Security Vision
A robotic security concept using cameras and computer vision for detecting people and potential anomalies.
🌱 Orto del Buon Samaritano
A demonstration of the community garden application.
🛸 Space Station
A demonstration of the software and robotics concepts developed for the space sector.
💳 Cardputer Zero
An experiment involving contactless hardware and XMR payment workflows.
The purpose is not simply to show individual technologies.
It is to demonstrate how they can work together.
🙏 Programmatore Parroco
The community side of MyZubster is also expanding.
One experiment is the idea of the "Programmatore Parroco": helping priests, parish volunteers and community members learn how to build simple digital tools.
The objective isn't to turn everyone into a professional developer.
It's to make technology more accessible.
Possible projects include:
- parish websites;
- digital bulletin boards;
- event calendars;
- community garden tools;
- AI-assisted communication;
- simple open-source applications.
The same tools used by developers can therefore become tools for local communities.
💰 Open-Source Bounties
The development model remains based on open-source contributions.
A typical workflow is:
Issue
↓
CLAIM
↓
Development
↓
Pull Request
↓
Review
↓
Merge
↓
Bounty
This makes the repository more than a place where code is stored.
It becomes a coordination system for contributors.
Developers can work on robotics.
Others can work on AI.
Others can build community applications.
Others can experiment with hardware.
The pieces can then become part of the same ecosystem.
🌍 What Changes in the Real World?
This is probably the most important question.
The value of these experiments isn't simply the number of robots or the amount of XMR assigned to bounties.
The interesting part is the transition from isolated software experiments to connected physical workflows.
A community garden can become connected to sensors.
Sensors can communicate with software.
Software can communicate with robots.
Robots can interact with users.
Payments can be automated.
AI can analyze information.
And the entire workflow can remain open source.
That creates a possible architecture for a different kind of digital infrastructure:
PEOPLE
↓
COMMUNITIES
↓
APPLICATIONS
↓
AI
↓
IOT
↓
ROBOTS
↓
GATEWAY
↓
DIGITAL SERVICES
The same architecture can then be tested in increasingly complex environments.
From a garden.
To a city.
To robotics.
To simulated space infrastructure.
🚀 What's Next?
The next phase is about connecting the pieces.
The roadmap includes:
- expanding IoT integrations;
- improving computer vision;
- connecting more robots;
- developing Gateway services;
- improving payment workflows;
- expanding community applications;
- continuing space simulations;
- testing the ecosystem in physical environments.
TAZ DAY #1 represents an important transition.
Until now, much of the work has happened through code, repositories, issues and simulations.
The next step is to put those technologies in front of real people.
Final Thoughts
MyZubster started with individual ideas.
Robots.
Payments.
AI.
IoT.
Gardens.
Open source.
Space.
Community.
The latest update shows how these ideas can begin to connect.
A small garden application can use the same open-source philosophy as a space-robot simulation.
An I2C adapter can connect software to physical hardware.
A Gateway can connect robots, applications and payment systems.
And a physical event can bring all of these experiments together.
The goal isn't to claim that the future has already arrived.
The goal is to build and test the infrastructure that could make that future possible.
🌱 Start small.
🔌 Connect hardware.
🤖 Build robots.
🧠 Add intelligence.
💳 Experiment with payments.
🌍 Connect communities.
🛸 And keep pushing the boundaries.
One open-source module at a time.
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