Made a bit more progress today, got this bit working ; 1) overlaying some text on the captured images (eg Day 1, Day 2 ....) while its capturing them To do it I needed "imagemagick" package and to figure some commands in there. to download it and install use sudo apt-get install imagemagic...
nice... interesting thread. will be good to see this setup fares against the old system. are you running the led setup in parallel to the hps btw, will you compare directly or by your experience?
This is quite impressive. As an electronics person, I absolutely approve of this entire thing. Nuts. lol it is quite nuts, and incredibly fun. cant wait to be gathering some awesome timelapse footage, this thing could do something eye-popping im sure. I will have to try and make it a good grow to j...
cheers ledbud. yeah I guesse it is a bit techy, but hopefully some will come along and it might be real useful to them. raspberry pi at least was a board designed to help get kids into programming but has found a real home with the hacker/maker/diy/amateur electronics. there is lots of info out ther...
back to the setup of the raspberry pi. before getting back to the main job though, its useful to setup the Pi for remote access. We will use two ways, SSH and VNC. SSH is a secure terminal, we can connect from another computer on the network and send the commands like in LXTerminal. VNC is a remote ...
you can get quite a low frequency din that penetrates surprisingly through walls and floors with some (most) pumps, "whisper/silent" marked ones included. attach it to pots making low freq bubble noises and a sit all directly on a wooden box and this can help propagate that vibration, so g...
I wish :) we might not be so far off that tho, I reckon another 10-20yrs and its quite realistically possible. unfortunately it will probably be a google or apple product and you wont be able to unplug the damn thing :lol: Dunno if you guys saw the film "Frank and Robot". Enjoyed that chec...