{"id":775,"date":"2014-03-20T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2014-03-20T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:26:59","slug":"brew-controller-freezing-room-pink-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/brew-controller-freezing-room-pink-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Brew controller + freezing room = pink jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-777\" alt=\"2014-03-20 09.02.19\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-09.02.19.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-09.02.19.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-09.02.19-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>I geeked out and made a brew controller for the wine.\u00a0 It looks at the room temperature and the brew temperature and does a nifty little calculation to determine whether the brew belt should be on or not.\u00a0 It then reaches out to the internet and posts the current values.\u00a0 This gives <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.william-powlett.net\/brew\/temp.php\">a nice little dashboard<\/a>\u00a0 for me to look at.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.william-powlett.net\/brew\/temp.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-778\" alt=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Capture-300x243.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Capture-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Capture.png 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last night it got a little too cold, and despite the belt being on all the time, it could not keep the temperature up to the target.\u00a0 I looked around and found a perfect little jacket to help it along.\u00a0 My youngest grew out of it in the last few months, but I don&#8217;t think it was as tight on her as it is on the carboy!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The brew controller is some way from completion and is rather Heath Robinson at the moment.\u00a0 It does the job, but I did have it working with a beautiful display showing the temperatures.\u00a0 But this turned to gobbledygook when it started switching the power to the brew belt.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-776\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._Heath_Robinson\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-776\" alt=\"Heath Robinson\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-18-23.44.56-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-18-23.44.56-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-18-23.44.56.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heath Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lots of customisation is to come, not least an improvised thermowell to put the thermometer in to the middle of the brew rather than taped to the side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I geeked out and made a brew controller for the wine.\u00a0 It looks at the room temperature and the brew temperature and does a nifty little calculation to determine whether the brew belt should be on or not.\u00a0 It then reaches out to the internet and posts the current values.\u00a0 This gives a nice little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/brew-controller-freezing-room-pink-jacket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brew controller + freezing room = pink jacket<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41,80,79],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekiness","tag-arduino","tag-brew-controller","tag-sadlers-sav-2014-03"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}