Hydroponics, home growing and tech from Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Radioactive fruit, three-hearted octopuses, and a chess number bigger than the universe. Five facts that read like clickbait — each one checked against the actual science, with the numbers that make them real.
The fibre network is world-class, hyperscale clouds are finally landing in Auckland, and startups keep punching above their weight. Here's the honest state of tech in New Zealand — including the cloud pricing trap everyone discovers the hard way.
In hydroponics, NFT stands for nutrient film technique — a thin stream of nutrient solution flowing past bare roots. Here's how to build an automated NFT system with off-the-shelf parts, sensors worth paying for, and the New Zealand reality check nobody mentions.
