Hi all ! Hope everyone is well and fine.
It has been a challenging couple of months . Thinking of the project, assembling the greenhouse, putting everything together, testing and production - it has been a wonderful ride.
Always had a special interest in hydroponics and this project was the perfect excuse to try it.
I know it's not scientifically accurate - but NASA has spent millions to be able to grow radish in the International Space Station - and I don't have that kind of budget 
- so, I took a bit of liberty - Assumed that gravity is present, either because we discovered how to manipulate the gravitons - or the more plausible method of centrifugal force - and there's gravity in the Space Craft. !
Probably aeroponics would be more easy method to use in Space without gravity.
Nonetheless, I had a ton of fun doing this and learn a lot - I really did learn a lot and was an opportunity to further my knowledge of Python. But, I didn't only learn from my work in the Space Vegetables Project. By reading your blog posts, I did learn too. Thank you !
Conclusions
Despite the ending of the project, I'm still going to keep the Space Vegetables project running. After all this time, effort and watching the plants grow, I'm expecting to make a salad with all the ingredients from the greenhouse ! 
And I'm still going to post here - probably not weekly, but every two weeks, for those interested - and if Element14 still allows it - the progress of the growth of the plants and my conclusions when comparing with vegetables from soil cultures.
Wife permitting ( 
), I'm keeping the hydroponics kit working and developing further the software:
- a Graphical Interface - Always keeping in mind having the server in CLI - so, with a web interface.
- possibility to add more devices, pumps, sensors, etc..
- A more friendly configuration
- Developing a kind of dashboard, instead of relying in ThingSpeak
Hope everyone participating also had a ton of fun.
A very happy new year !
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