Build Your Own BSD Beer Brewing Control System 222
gnuguru writes "Here's a great use for some of your old hardware, a BSD beer brewing kit! Components: one 486, FreeBSD, a temperature logger kit, a relay board, some odds and ends from the useful box, and some time. Summer's just around the corner, so get to work gang!" You'll have to use this recipe, naturally.
Toldja FreeBSD wasn't dead!!!... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Alternative ideas for this system... (Score:3, Insightful)
There's something more useful or important than beer?
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of for decades. It requires much faster responses than beer brewing,
and to do it right you need to understand the differential pressures
of the hot and cold water. It's a lot simpler to buy a thermostatic
valve.
Greg
Re:A simple thermostat isn't good enough... (Score:1, Insightful)
Would a cunning temperature profile over the brew cycle improve the flavour? Gawd knows - just keeping things clean enough for a decent taste and making sure you're brewing a good recipe with good ingredients is hard enough if you ask me. I note that the graphs of the chap with the 486 thermostat indicate that he's not trying for a varying target temperature over the brewing cycle, but a static temperature target, just like me.
I tell you, those beer brewing ancient Egyptians would be amazed that anyone would want all that computery junk just to brew beer at home.
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