So we had a fire.. Quite shocking (in all aspects of the word). What had happen was the SSR for the boil element melted and caused a short. In short, lots of sparks, flames and smoke! Since the CraftBeerPi community has grown to become quite substantial, we thought we would Read more…
After some time using the controller and the ever-growing community is getting larger, there are some “fine adjustments” being suggested to parts, wiring and usage. One of the biggest one have been regarding the DS18B20 temperature sensor. This sensor, used on both Raspberry Pi`s and Arduino`s is a “1-wire” sensor Read more…
Its seems that more and more brewers are looking into and building their own brewery controllers. We have had some great chats with other brewers regarding CraftBeerPi and the Automated Brewery Guide for the hardware. Some of the questions that we receive and we find on the forums are related Read more…
SD CARD Preperation: First, make sure your SD card is formatted. The easy method of doing this is from Windows startmenu, search for: diskpart This will give you a small cmd window where we can manually clean and format our SD card. Why not the old fashion way? Because SD cards that Read more…
We have previously completed our Automated Brewery, its now time to automate the fermenting process. The less things we need to worry about, the more we can focus on what we really love; making recipes and brewing beer! Contents Step 1 – Preparing the Raspberry Pi Connecting cables to Read more…
