Final assembly

Hey guys,

I finally got a new missile switch since the old one grilled itself and the cooler doesn't leak anymore, so the final assembly has eventually been done.

Some pics for you:

This is the lower right corner of the machine with the cooler in its final place. The lower big hose is the arrival from the pump, the upper big hose the outlet. The lower small hose is the water outlet and the free port is the water entry.

Here I did some final work on the electric side. I fitted the power supply of the relay board, the black box on top left, in the housing and pulled some wires for the main missile switch.

 Once the electric stuff was back in place I mounted the housing...

And the rear cover and done! Still almost looks like a normal washing machine, doesn't it?

Since march it didn't look like this, and honestly, in the beginning I often doubted if it would ever look like this again and if it was going to work, I'm pretty proud of myself.
There are still some things to do though, like a system to control the fermentation temperature.
And since I still suffer from this USB-crashes I may go wireless some day, there are Arduinos with bluetooth out there. How cool would that be? Control the machine via bluetooth?! :D
And I'd love to give the machine another paint design, but I don't know yet what I want to do there. Any ideas?
The next goal is to get a stable good beer quality. I'll then start serial production.

So, the end of this blog is still far away, come back and see what happens next.

Have a nice day!

Tastier!

Hello fellas!

Like you guys, I had to wait a month for news...
I found a nice way to pass time:

I'm a big and long time AC/DC fan and as I found these in a local supermarket I had to try them. I thought 24 pints may be a good start... :)

To say it with AC/DC's own Brian Johnson's wise words: "Have a drink on me"
And for the fans, a bit of history

Ok, now back to ArduinoBeer! ;)
The only thing I did on the machine was building in the cooler. I made a little test last week and it leaked a bit of water, but that's only a question of tightening some joints. I'll share some pics later.

But most important: I finally tested the second beer!
It is already much better than the first one, still a bit smokey but at least I dare sharing and drinking all of them... ;)
And I share with you too, here's the video:

Have a good time, see you soon!