Pot rack

I had a 4' piece of metal and some random pipe flanges and pipe nipples laying around from previous projects and I needed a pot rack for the kitchen. So I thought... WELDING PROJECT! Impromptu welding projects are always fun. So I slapped this together.





Finished product:


I got the hooks from Ikea for something else and never used them.


Welding always makes me happy

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

Moving

Well, I've been moving into my new place for two weeks. I'm nearly done. One more week and I should be done. Then 2-3 years to unpack the boxes.

Github is pretty cool

I spent some time today playing around with Git and Github and the more I use it, the more I use it the more I like it.

Moved the kegerator controller to it's own space

Two things today:

1. Moved the kegerator controller to its own blog
   
2. Started a GitHub repository for my source code.
   

Making monsters

This morning I had the kids draw monsters for me. Then we cut them out of fabric an while they're "napping" I sewed them up.
My 3.5 yo son drew a big slug. He wanted his monster to be like Roz from Monsters Inc.
My 5 yo daughter drew something simple.

Here are some pictures of the outcome.

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/