So, Brewing beer here in the desert is a challenge in the summer. One of the most important things you can do to brew good beer is to make sure that you control the temperature during fermentation. Too high a temp, and you stress the yeast out and they generate off flavors.
I’ve got a fermentation chamber I made, basically an insulated box on a stand, that uses a small window AC Unit to provide cooling, and a small heating pad to provide warmth in winter.
Right now I use an STC-1000 temperature controller to maintain the temp, and it does a good job, but I would like the ability to monitor and control the temp from the web, as well as the device itself.
So that’s where the Pinoccio (https://pinocc.io/) comes in to play. It’s a wireless mesh enabled device that makes wireless communications very easy. It also is built on top of the arduino micoprocessor platform. This makes it ideally suited for my particular application.
Stay tuned for more progress on the project over the next few weeks.
This is such an awesome project! Brent, we’d love to see if you have further notes, or anything blocking you on this. Once you’re happy with it, I think this would be a great addition to our official Projects hub at http://pinoccio.hackster.io .
If you like, we can simply link back to your site so people get the full experience. 🙂
Cheers! – Alex
I’m close. This might be just the inspiration I need to wrap it up!
Thanks Alex!