Now with added cucumbers - Raspberry Pi

Working here at Pi Towers, I'm always a little frustrated by not being able to share the huge number of commercial businesses' embedded projects that use Raspberry Pis. We don't get to feature many of them on the blog; many organisations don't want their work replicated by competitors, or aren't prepared for customers and competitors to see how inexpensively they're able to automate tasks. Every now and then, though, a company is happy to share what they're using Pis for. Here's a great example: a cucumber farm in Japan, which is using a Raspberry Pi to sort thorny cucumbers, saving the farmer eight to nine hours' manual work a day. Makoto Koike is the son of farmers, who works as an embedded systems designer for the Japanese car industry.