BREWthinger

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1 × BeagleBone SBC Early generation BeagleBone Single Board Computer. Will likely be replaced later on with a BeagleBone Black.

1 × TP-Link WR703n Stupidly awesome little hackable routers. Brew rig will be mobile (within a warehouse) so this will help keep wiring to a minimum will having the web based console available.

1 × Arduino UNO It's what I had laying around.

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It's not brewing...
morgan • 03/30/2014 at 20:30 • 0 comments

But it is logging the light level of my room!
http://howbright.herokuapp.com
Getting pumped..
morgan • 03/30/2014 at 04:12 • 0 comments

Although I don't have a pump yet. Or any hardware for that matter. Or the space to put it....
All those shortcomings aside I am very excited for this project.
I brewed beer for about 10 years until the final 3 as a professional left the practice highly undesirable. Luckily that was quite a long time ago and over the last several years I've wanted to resume, but do to lack of space have been unable.
In 30 days that changes. I am moving to a much larger space and getting back to brewing is going to be project priority #1. And of course it must out-do any brewery I've built before, so it will finally be the automated system I've always wanted.

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morgan wrote 07/05/2016 at 19:17

Sadly it's not at the moment. Shortly after starting I moved to a smaller place that doesn't accommodate brewing. Though it might be revived in the future as a fermentation controller for cider and wine.

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Leo Petipas wrote 07/05/2016 at 13:16

How is it proceeding?

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morgan wrote 03/30/2014 at 18:56

There are one or two others going on at the moment.

There is a port on BrewPI to node being worked on.
https://github.com/tklun/brewpi-node

Brewfactory/Brewberry
https://github.com/brewfactory/Brewberry/tree/refactor/tests
I think this uses BrewPI arduino also, but I'm not sure.

While I'm going to follow the progress of this it is likely not the direction I want to go. I will probably do my initial prototype using johnny-five talking to Firmata on the Arduino while I build up the actual brewing rig. As the hardware matures I will write the brewing scheduler in C running on an AVR. My goal with that is to have the controller with a battery backup in case something goes wrong with the main board so things can be safely shut down.

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Eric Evenchick wrote 03/30/2014 at 18:33

I'm thinking this might be the first NodeJS powered brewing rig... Looking forward to seeing it come together!

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