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Installing a 4’x8’x1’ Kijani Grows Aquaponics Garden
What you will need Firm level location for garden and fish tank Roof cover to prevent direct sunlight from falling on fish tank 32 cubic feet (1 yard) washed pea gravel Fish tank water conditioner...
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This presentation gives insights into some challenges that motivated the design of the v2 controller.
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A Gift For Writing
The other day I was in a writing mood and got a gift for it. A fun pen knife from instructables For writing this article … https://www.instructables.com/id/V2-Controller-Smart-Aquaponics/ Then I...
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How To Interface Sensors
Electronics is the art of controlling electron flow. Software begins at the end of electronics. Software scales electronics. At the end of software is humans. Software allows humans to communicate...
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The story behind Mandela Grocery and Red Bay Coffee
Behind the core, social business operations of Mandela Grocery and Red Bay Coffee are tiny rooms. Tiny rooms with large trash cans. This is where this story begins – at the end where everything is...
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V2 external connections
V2 is designed with flexibility for supervisory control, robotics and IoT style hardware peripherals, with emphasis on reliability, communications and security
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v2 onboard hardware components
some fun v2 onboard hardware components are shown in the image below. my favorite thing to play with so far are the 3 watchdogs: 9331 watches the 2560 and can reboot the 2560 2560 watches the 9331 and...
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boardHardwareComparison Name Kijani Grows V2 Controller Arduino Yun BeagleBone A6 Cubieboard pcDuino Rascal Micro Raspberry Pi Model B Price $98.00 $69,00 $49.00 $49,00 $60,00 $199,00 $35,00 Processor...
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v2 comes with fun on-board, software and data services designed to get one up and running in no time not sure how completely accurate the table below is as we have to research the other boards more....
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V2_Board How to connect to a new wifi network
Prerequisites Have a V2 board installed with the latest software Ensure your computer is configured for Dynamic Ethernet (DHCP) How to connect to Dynamic Ethernet (DHCP) on a Mac How to connect to...
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Connecting sensors to a v2 controller
Sensor types: V2 smart controllers support different sensors including digital sensors(eg a float switch), analogue sensors(eg photocell), 1-wire sensor(temperature), i2c, serial and usb based sensors...
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Assigning your v2 controller a unique host name
A unique controller name is required for visualizing you sensor data remotely. By default your board name is build from the number found on the sticky tag on the back of your board is the unique. For...
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using 1-wire temperature sensors with the v2 controller
connecting 1-wire temperature sensors The 1-wire protocol allows us to connect numerous 1-wire sensors on the same digital pin since the individual 1-wire sensors are addressable. 1-wire temperature...
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Setting up Time Lapse Photography on a V2 Controller
This post will try and cover what is required to setup a time lapse system on a Kijanigrows V2 Control board using a webcam, and an SD card. Let me know if anything is unclear or if you have any...
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Kijani Grows – JellyFish – Quick Start Guide
Kijani Grows – JellyFish – QSG [Quick Start Guide] – 20180103-jv Jellyfish STEAM Kit – Quick Start Guide
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