A Smart Aqua-garden for Creatively Inactive People

This aqua-garden was inspired by all those who love green spaces and animals but clueless about feeding or maintaining their plants or pets on time!

As more people settle in cities, they have fewer opportunities to embrace nature. Herb&Fish CONNECT brings nature to you, by combining plants and fish in a smart – stylish aqua farming system

The new Herb&Fish CONNECT version allows your smartphone to help you control and be in tuned to all the needs of your fishes and plants.

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Batteries and Accumulators Demystified

Batteries

A battery is a device which stores chemical energy and which can convert it into electricity. There are two types of batteries: primary batteries (single use) and secondary batteries (rechargeable), also known as accumulators.

In this post, I will explain how to chose the right batteries for your projects and how to compute how long will that battery last. Continue reading

Google Donates through Raspberry Pi Foundation

raspberry pi

Google and Raspberry Pi

Google Giving Fund, the charitable arm of Google will be donating with the assistance of Raspberry Pi Foundation. Google Executive chairman, Eric Schmidt and Pi inventor  Eben Upton were at  Chesterton Community College in Cambridge teaching the kids coding lessons when they announced that they will be giving  15000 Rasberry Pi Model Bs to students all over UK.

“We hope that our new partnership with Google will be a significant moment in the development of computing education in the UK,” said Upton.

“We believe that this can turn around the year on year decline in the numbers and skill sets of students applying to learn computer science at university.” Continue reading