Computer for Greenhouse

   The computer system in the Tupperware box was an old HP PC from 2003.  It had climbed up to 120C the first day I checked its temperatures which surprised me because I thought that it would shut itself off long before those high of temperatures. After cleaning out over a decade of dust I applied some new thermal paste to the CPU to drop the temperature into a decent range. After the cleaning and thermal paste the computer sat around 55C with little variation and the CPU fan actually spit out warm air as opposed to near room temperature air. An modification to the computer was a simple switch out of the "pc-computing" blinking LED that was orange with another LED that was blue to keep with the blue light theme I had unintentionally created when I bought a USB-hub that lit up blue. 

    I wanted to install and run a Linux Mint distro but unfortunately my USB wireless adapter was not compatible with Linux (Cisco please work on that) and I had to install Windows XP. In order to remote into the computer I used TeamViewer which is my favorite free for personal use remote desktop program that I can use with both my computers and phone. To store and share data I used Google Drive. Every file that saved like my pictures, videos, and data text files were near immediately uploaded to my cloud storage that I could also access from all my computers and phone. Since the greenhouse computer is connected via WIFI to my parents router I can connect at any time (if bandwidth permits) and view what is going on inside the greenhouse or I can browse through my Google Drive folder to get an update on the greenhouse through its logged temperatures, humidity values, pictures, and videos.