My insane 25 Gal, 100 Percent Hard Plumbed Tri-Clover, Automated Tippy Build

[Bensiff]

Preach it. Still a bit numb around the scar.

I took the tip of my thumb down to the bone in shop class on a belt grinder with 60 grit on it from a split second of focus loss. The good thing is that eventually the nerves did come back, your finger should stop tingling eventually...and the scar will disappear.

 

[kickflip_mj]

I got the top of my thumb a week ago with an SOS pad on a grinder... burned through my skin real fast.

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

Was grinding angle iron wearing a Hunter machine shop shirt and didn't pay attention to the material. Sparks caught it on fire and I wiped it out with my left hand. Had to pick the melted material off my skin which the skin came with. Cut myself a lot but my opinion that burn trumped them all. Lesson learned always cotton.

 

[kickflip_mj]

ha that sounds terrible!

 

[kickflip_mj]

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

Very nice, wish I had the money for that.

 

[kickflip_mj]

Very nice, wish I had the money for that.

Haha I wish I had the money too

 

[Bensiff]

All that hard work is starting to really come together. Lookin good

 

[Bensiff]

Haha I wish I had the money too

Yeah you don't realize how much it will cost until you are knee deep and by that time there is no turning back, like a person with a gambling problem getting upside down at the blackjack table.

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

Yeah you don't realize how much it will cost until you are knee deep and by that time there is no turning back, like a person with a gambling problem getting upside down at the blackjack table.

Yea I don't think my wife knew what she was getting into when she got me a kit for Christmas last year. By May I jumped to all grain and now am looking to add more. I started to help with all the money I was spending on beer, but money saved just goes back into it now.

 

[bahed]

Wow... drooling into my coffee mug! I need to turn away from this thread before I start thinking seriously about which of my kids I can sell to afford a setup like that creative, cool build!

 

[kickflip_mj]

Yeah you don't realize how much it will cost until you are knee deep and by that time there is no turning back, like a person with a gambling problem getting upside down at the blackjack table.

Ha that's how I feel about this too. Just a huge money pit, but so rewarding when you get done

 

[kickflip_mj]

Wow... drooling into my coffee mug! I need to turn away from this thread before I start thinking seriously about which of my kids I can sell to afford a setup like that creative, cool build!

If you sold them now... you could have an awesome brewery

But If you decide to go down a route like this, put some serious thought into it. These things are extremely expensive and i'm not sure how necessary.

 

[kickflip_mj]

Added the water lines and started pulling wires

 

[Bensiff]

Added the water lines and started pulling wires

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I see, your photos are working just fine...photobucket is forking things up for my thread. How are you posting yours?

 

[kickflip_mj]

First off your photos where awesome!!! I am so jealous of the metal flake:/

I am actually using the HBtalk ap on my iphone to post pictures. Its a lot easier then using your computer.

 

[kickflip_mj]

Just ordered my touchscreen and Raspberry Pi

 

[Bensiff]

First off your photos where awesome!!! I am so jealous of the metal flake:/

I am actually using the HBtalk ap on my iphone to post pictures. Its a lot easier then using your computer.

Thanks

Hmmm, I looked around the app...under profile pics it wouldn't let me access that part. Think I just figured it out though.

 

[kickflip_mj]

Raspberry PI showed up, including wifi and SD card! Waiting for touchscreen and a ton of other crap

 

[Bensiff]

Raspberry PI showed up, including wifi and SD card! Waiting for touchscreen and a ton of other crap

Well now you are getting all sorts if fancy.

 

[kickflip_mj]

Yeah I am getting really fancy. Sadly I wont be able to work on this until I get back from Oktoberfest. But hopefully I can get my panel from Panoko designed before I leave.

 

[Bensiff]

Oktoberfest huh? I have a friend that goes over there every year...thinks its fun to send pictures and make those of us who can't go jealous. I think its fun to send him texts early in his morning and then say "oops, forgot about the time difference."

 

[kickflip_mj]

Haha So my buddies drive to work at 5 am and love to group text the only guy who wakes up at 7 am (work from home)... guess who is getting some greetings from Germany at 3 am ?

 

[Bensiff]

Haha So my buddies drive to work at 5 am and love to group text the only guy who wakes up at 7 am (work from home)... guess who is getting some greetings from Germany at 3 am ?

At $.25 a pop, awesome

 

[kickflip_mj]

Thank you Marcb for sending me the intermittent pilot valves today!!

 

[huntb]

I've been reading this thread since it began.. I can't believe I haven't subscribed yet! Awesome work man, I really would like to get a Raspberry Pi to play with for my setup but the EE in me wants to custom design my own circuitry

 

[kickflip_mj]

I've been reading this thread since it began.. I can't believe I haven't subscribed yet! Awesome work man, I really would like to get a Raspberry Pi to play with for my setup but the EE in me wants to custom design my own circuitry

I really appreciate you following my build, I know I go in spurts of building but these things cant be rushed.

Why don't you use the beagle bone black and create your own GUI?

 

[huntb]

I really appreciate you following my build, I know I go in spurts of building but these things cant be rushed.

Why don't you use the beagle bone black and create your own GUI?

I have a Digilent Nexys2 FPGA development board that I was thinking about using for creating my own GUI. It has 8 connectors for adding additional Pmod devices such as wifi and additional IO for controlling my SSRs and switching pumps and solenoids and such. It's just been a while since I've written any Verilog code, but I would like to refresh my memory

 

[kickflip_mj]

That's a great choice, I checked that board out at a show not to long ago. In the next month I should be giving away NXP starter kits. Let me know if you want one.

 

[huntb]

That's a great choice, I checked that board out at a show not to long ago. In the next month I should be giving away NXP starter kits. Let me know if you want one.

I am always open to playing around with new development kits and it's even better when they are being given out! What uC the starter kit using? I really appreciate it