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Build Your Own BSD Beer Brewing Control System

Posted by michael on from the worthy-endeavors dept.

gnuguru writes "Here's a great use for some of your old hardware, a BSD beer brewing kit! Components: one 486, FreeBSD, a temperature logger kit, a relay board, some odds and ends from the useful box, and some time. Summer's just around the corner, so get to work gang!" You'll have to use this recipe, naturally.

3 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Toldja FreeBSD wasn't dead!!!... by cepler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See, FreeBSD isn't dead! Just drunk!

  2. Re:Alternative ideas for this system... by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This really sounds like a neat system - not just for beer, but for anything for which a relatively constant temperature is useful or important

    There's something more useful or important than beer?

  3. Re:Alternative ideas for this system... by groggy-P · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shower temperature regulation is one of the things I've been thinking
    of for decades. It requires much faster responses than beer brewing,
    and to do it right you need to understand the differential pressures
    of the hot and cold water. It's a lot simpler to buy a thermostatic
    valve.

    Greg