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Spring is almost upon us and all around Australia garden beds are being prepared for the coming season. Garden boxes built from fence palings are inexpensive and easy to make. They also look great and best of all they will last for years....
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Posts to The Jimternet have been a little thin on the ground in recent months. Of the myriad reasons behind this shortage of missives, one of the most exciting is the birth of SparkCC. SparkCC is a makerspace/hackerspace located on the Central...
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In their seminal work Getting Real, 37 Signals talk about scratching your own itch when looking for a new project. Well I was itching to brew consistently tasty beer. And brewing consistently tasty beer requires reliable temperature control. Sure...
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Today I'm very pleased to make available the first beta release of Braubuddy. Braubuddy started as a simple Python script to monitor the fermentation temperature of my home brew using a Raspberry Pi and a USB thermometer. Since then the project...
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In my workshop I have a Raspberry Pi whose primary function is to control the temperature of my home brew using Braubuddy. Said workshop is part of a detached garage, so I planned to employ a USB WiFi adapter to connect the Pi to my home wireless...
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I previously blogged about the tosr0x, an inexpensive USB relay controller board which I'm using as part of a computerised thermostat. Having creating tosr0x.py to control the tosr0x' relays using Python, I required a device which employs these...
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