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| | | | | So in October I finally bought the Rancilio Silvia I'd been coveting (after coveting a La Pavoni manual espresso machine first!) with the intention of modding it to add digital temperature control to it, as many have done. This basically involves replacing the stock thermostat with a thermocouple and solid-state relay, plugged into a digital control unit which does PID control. Now being a software guy who likes to tinker with his Arduino, I pretty quickly decided that I wouldn't use a standard industria... | |
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| | | | | Two circuit boards that I designed with Eagle use tiny components that I knew I could not solder with a soldering iron (chips in QFN packages and others). You can see one of the designs below. I was aware of two low-cost ways to solder them: with a hot plate, or in an oven. I... | |
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| | | | | This page shows the process of modifying a Poppery II popcorn popper so that the motor and heater coils can be operated independently of each other. During the modification a thermistor is added to monitor the temperature of the coils and a thermocouple to monitor the chamber temperature. | |
| | | | | briangitt.com | |
| | | False beliefs about renewable energy are harming the environment. I say this as someone who championed renewable energy for over two decades-first as executive director of a green building non-profit, then as CEO of a consulting firm specializing in clean energy, and most recently as founder of a cleantech startup. I thought my efforts were [...] | ||