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Cool beer fridge
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Friday Nov 25, 2011 10:02 amby Guru
This is pretty geeky but I like this guys commitment.
http://www.elcojacobs.com/uberfridge/
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Friday Nov 25, 2011 11:08 amby earle
Wow, a bit over the top but perhaps he was scared of the "where do you put you temperature sensor" flame wars that they have over at AHB. Problem solved - one in the fridge and one in the beer. Being accurately able to control the temp of your fermenting beer to 0.1degree is impressive.
I wonder how his beer tastes?
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Friday Nov 25, 2011 12:14 pmby warra48
That's impressive. Way beyond what my simple TempMate does.
As soon as he started speaking in the video, I knew he was a Dutchman. Being a clogwog myself, and still speaking the language, I can pick a Dutch accent from miles away.The guy's an electrical/electronics engineering student in Eindhoven in The Netherlands. That's where the Phillips electrics/electronics empire is based. Maybe in time to come they'll employ him, and we might see them make a ready made version for us homebrewers?
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Friday Nov 25, 2011 12:22 pmby Guru
I only picked this up as I'm a bit of a nerd myself (programmer), so this type of thing got me excited as it combines beer and computers, woot.
I don't think this would be too hard to build, and probably not too expensive either.
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Saturday Nov 26, 2011 12:06 pmby milliner1986
I wonder how he washes his bottles
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Saturday Nov 26, 2011 10:25 pmby squirt in the turns
Love your thinking, warra.
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Sunday Nov 27, 2011 5:58 pmby jello
Impressive. But overkill.
Cool beer fridge
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Monday Nov 28, 2011 10:48 amby bullfrog
jello wrote:Impressive. But overkill.
Well it's not like he knocks out 400L batches, or anything...
Re: Cool beer fridge
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Monday Nov 28, 2011 12:17 pmby Kaiser Soze
It's a great project for a projects sake, and very well done. But not much that my STC-1000 doesn't do, except that it has a greater degree of resolution and accuracy. I can't imagine that keeping the beer +/-0.5C is much better than +/-1C. Still, the code to predictively turn the fridge on/off was probably the hardest part of this project and deserves some kudos in itself!