Open source hardware autonomous tractor uses repurposed drone autopilot

Sounds like a good platform for testing brain-computer (or neural-computer in general) interfaces. With the option to eat the test platform afterwards.

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Do you really want to eat a pig that died of neural sclerosis, or glioma?

I am not aware of any factor that could cause cross-species (or even intra-species) transfer of these conditions; prions arenā€™t involved either. Nor it seems to me like liable to affect the quality of meat.

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I dunno. If weā€™re really doing science here, shouldnā€™t we pickle our subjects, in case we need to go back and look at exactly what went wrong after further research?

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There are practical considerations, aka the storage space and the liquid nitrogen needed for keeping some kinds of samples. Iā€™d suggest to keep the most important samples and document all that can be documented (digital data are easy to store). The rest can be disposed of. Mmmmm, bacon!

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Basically simulate a farm collieā€™s brain then?

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Gamification?

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