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