So my friend @spacebat explained this idea to me in great detail about how we could use a computer to control the composting project, and I tried hard to persuade him that we should post it to hackaday. Anyway the current plan is to have a "hackathon" weekend in a months time, where we, together with my father in-law who is an awesome mechanical fabricator, we will see what we can cobble together.

We already have 40 gallon drums, a dead washing machine with a working motor, an arduino, a welder, a soldering iron and willingness to experiment!

In the meantime, background plan is to research algorithm development...