Recent content by tom_hampton

Grrr. Sorry about the sideways pix. I guess my phone automatically rotates them for viewing.

I have a very similar setup. I keep my Geer in my shop, which is about the same distance from my covered porch where I brew. I use a folding step ladder in the same way as the brew ladder. The ladder is one of those lightweight home step ladders that has the large top shelf for a gallon of...

Read the direct heating and multiferment threads over on the bpi forum. I think multiple chambers will always require a separate arduino, but maybe not. As I understand the charges are to abstract the actuator/sensor objects to a more generic concept that can be interconnected in more...

Your setup is exactly like mine, right down to the reflectix. My chamber is a 4x4 closet with an ac unit. The cold room plus heating pad is not that unusual. I've had many discussions with elco about this configuration. He and mdma are currently redesigning bpi to support this configuration...

Program manager!?! Well that explains everything. Engineers have day jobs, too... Ya know. Somehow we still manage not to kill ALL the program managers in the morning.

Come on, now. :p I've spent a large portion of my life developing embedded products: from robotics to avionics to industrial controls. 145am is just barely getting started. If the sun isn't up yet, it is a good night.

I'm probably not who you are referring to, but I run 4 fermentations in my ferm chamber. I keep the room at 48f. I keep one layer of reflectix insulation around the outside and can maintain approximately 70f fermentation temps. A second layer will get me another 20f delta, when necessary...

Brewpi is interesting. I've been following it since Uberfridge days. However, there are still several issues with Elco's chosen method of control---and the basic implementation. Really the nicest thing about brewpi is the UI and its Rpi based features. Specifically, it doesn't support...

Its ok. I was wrong, and answered my own question. I deleted the content to avoid confusing someone else.

nevermind....

Like Yuri, I'm impressed with the design and implementation of this suite of boards. Nice work. I'm in the design stages of a major overhaul to my fermentation and storage room. I currently use numerous (6 to be exact) STC-1000's to manage the AC unit for room temp control, and 4...

Yes, I'm aware. I did say "minor". Plus, that does imply that the rPI has internet access. It is conceivable that might not be the case for every use-case. With the Windows installers available for WAMP or XAMPP today, a wamp solution isn't really any more difficult. The trick is really...

I just wanted to play with it before I put it on an SBC behind a monitor. Its a little easier to dig around in the php on my primary desktop. I agree a WAMP machine is not the low-cost or discrete approach. But if someone has a WAMP server already, hten the rPI could just browse to it...

Just to confirm...I installed RaspberryPints onto an XAMPP based Windows server on my PC. Works fine. The only thing is that RaspberryPints wants to run in the htdocs root. But, I have several different test websites on my home server and I keep each one in a subdirectory below htdocs. I...

I'm an old embedded systems engineer. Pulse counting can be done a few ways in both hw and sw. But counting pulses only a couple ms apart in sw with interrupts or worse polling is unreliable. Generally, the most reliable way to do this is to have a hardware up counter that actually does the...