Been a while!

Just because I haven't been posting, doesn't mean I having been Making, fixing, building or creating. I've just been lazy about updating. I will try to do better!

I have a couple of projects coming up in the next couple of weeks and I plan on posting my pizza making schema. It's a combination of a recipe and a process and a whole lot of tweaking!

It's January, so I won't be brewing much. I'll start up again in full swing in March. My goal is 25 batches again this year. I missed that goal last year. I only got to batch 23.

Projects on deck are:

1. Camera interval timer (arduino)
2. Curtains for the Dining room and the kids rooms.
3. Finishing building my new Ubuntu main computer.

It's not all glamorous, but it's all making!

Brewing again

I've been away from the brew kettle for 3 months now, but you'd never know from how smoothly yesterday's brew session went and how smoothly today's brew session is going.

I brewed a "Summer's End Hefeweizen" yesterday and I'm brewing "Patriot Steam Beer" today. I think it's pretty obvious I've done this a few times.

Some Photos:
The new brew setup (Nothing new, just rearranged)


Chillin


Racking to primary


The Fermentarium

The Kegerator

I'm starting something mildly ambitious for my first real Arduino project. I'll be making a temperature controller for a chest freezer. The net effect will be to be able to switch the freezer on and off based on a "Set temp."

The controller will consist of the following:

• A temp probe
• An LCD to show the current and set temperatures
• Up and Down buttons to set the temp
• A massive 5vdc/400ma driven 240V/30A relay
• An Arduino boot-loaded AVR ATMega328

Eventually, I intend to add a lid switch to detect an open lid, an alarm to tell you when the temp is X degrees too high and another temp sensor in the tower to switch on a fan to keep the lines cool when the tower gets too warm.

Pictures and code can be found here:
http://kegeratorcontroller.blogspot.com/