These are pictures of the rest of the plants at the front of the house.

We needed a xp pro pc running from the datacentre for downloading and local maintenance. No problems I thought however by default XP doesn’t seem to recognise the hard disks :
“Setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer”
Well after googling the problem I stumbled across a website by Techhead and an article [...]

As a result of humidity mk2 there is insufficient room in the outside planter. So I thought it might be an idea to bring one of the plants in doors. In this way I can observe the differences and see if one improves over the other. For this reason my laptop webcam has been deployed [...]

Mk1 of the humidity solution has failed … or more specifically sprung a leak.
Having located an alternative planter that doesn’t have any holes in plants were moved.

Just a very brief update to advise that I have purchased and built a VELLEMAN USB I/O controller board.
After nearly 20 years I can still solder !!
The board is attached to a linux box running Ubuntu and I downloaded and built the drivers.Two files are needed to get up and running:
libusb-0.1.12.tar.gz
libk8055.tar.gz
Instructions
1. Unpack libusb into a [...]

After yet more reading up on what makes a chilli plant happy. I noted that as they normally frequent hot countries they like humid environments.
To achieve this there are a number of recommendations:
1. Only water the plants with luke warm tap water.
2. Add stones to the saucer the plant pot is standing in. In this [...]

I have been struggling since the begining of this project to find a reliable way to secure the Logitec eyeball camera I’m using in the greenhouse. The big issue is that it’s an eyeball so securing it with cable ties and gaffa tape has proven to be unreliable.
Mk1
Mk1 of the mount was a piece of [...]

Major chilli plant news:

After being advised that plants can stop growing if they run out of room in the pot. I checked the bottom of the pot and yes it was almost white with roots.
I am pleased to say that I have transplanted these three guys from one small pot to three larger ones – [...]

Just some notes in respect of installing Ubuntu 9.04 on the Laptop Fujitsu Amilo Pro. In particular getting the wireless card to work.
The problem is that the wireless button doesn’t do anything so whilst the hardware is detected it cannot be brought up.
The solution is in two parts.
1. Get the OS to load the fsam7400 [...]

After no success growing chilli plants on my window ledge I decided to get serious. The plants needed to move outside and to guarentee their best possible chance. An icubator style home (plastic green house), and tomatoe feed (in two plastic bottles LHS).
To keep track of these guys I have installed a video camera in [...]