Geeking out with stuff like this is amazing fun. You might look into a piece of equipment like an arduino controller with an ethernet adapter, you could actually program it to control/monitor your hardware with real time data as opposed to looking at it through a webcam. Set up an SSL tunnel to...
Geez, seems like a waste of my first post but here goes:
I'm kicking myself after seeing this. I just picked up a brand new 4 bulb T5HO lighting system yesterday and paid well over 200$ for it. Mind you it's a high quality piece of equipment but so long as a tube fixture has individual...