My Arduino Unos arrived along with my rocker switches. Unfortunately my AC power sockets are stuck in the mail until Feb 12th. Odds are they are coming from China and I was not paying attention to that when I ordered them from Amazon. Not a big deal. I remembered that I had a few of these around on some old electronics my work was throwing away. It doesn't happen often but sometimes I actually find useful parts in my junk boxes. I think the trick is you have to acquire enough junk first.

Here is a picture of most of the parts that will go into the hotplate.

• Arduino Uno
• Two Heater Elements
• Solid State Relay
• Power Socket with fuse
• AC / DC Converter
• LCD Screen
• Rocker Switch

Since I plan on building 3 hotplates I have 3 kits. Some of the parts are currently being used in my PID Control Box and I will pull those out after the first two hotplates are working.

I hope to laser cut the cases this weekend and start mounting everything. Hopefully this project will be one of those easy ones that doesn't stall. But I don't typically have that type of good luck.