The company that makes the controller is Athena. It's a C10 series temp controller. All I have to do is to is hook a thermocouple to the controller, some power, and let the controller turn a relay on and off. I can have the relay controling a 120 volt recepticle to plug whatever heat source in to. This controller has an auto tune feature to adjust for the charateristics of how fast the device heats and cools. In short, it can keep more consistant heat by pulsing the the heat source. Of course this wouldn't be aimed at heat bulbs, more to heat panels, ceramic heaters, UTh's, andmaybe the Flexwatt style.

I've also been toying with an automated misting system in my head. Using somekind of microPLC to turn on some misting heads for X amount of time at some set time every day or on a certain set day of the week. Just some ideas bouncing around in my head.

Most of these ideas aren't feasible because of cost of the hardware. For example, the Athena temp controller alone is about $150 plus the cost of an enclosure, relay, recepticle, wire, and exhaust fan. This could easily be a $300 project.