2017 Archive

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Last week, Peter Bailis announced a new tool for smoothing timeseries data for plotting, called ASAP:

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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Strike up the band, it's time for the eighth, and final, installment of this fermentation instrumentation series. In part four, I placed several different sensors in several different carboys of beer beginning fermentation. In parts six and seven, I analyzed a week of data from two of the sensors. This post will cover the third sensor, a floating accelerometer.

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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Keeping on the hop, it's time for part seven of this fermentation instrumentation series. In part four, I placed a few different sensors in some actively fermenting beer to gather data. In the previous post, I looked at data from a commercial sensor. Now it's time to examine the data from my experimental pressure sensor.

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Welcome back for part six of the fermentation instrumentation series. In part four, I placed a few different sensors in some actively fermenting beer to gather data. A week has now passed, and I've bottled the beer. Time to look at the data. Let's start with the device we know - the BeerBug.

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Welcome back for part five of the fermentation instrumentation series. In part four, I placed a few different sensors in some actively fermenting beer to gather data. I now have a few days of pressures and force vectors to analyze …

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Monday, February 20, 2017

This is part four of a series on monitoring homebrew fermentation. In parts one, two, and three, I experimented with data I downloaded from one platform and uploaded to another. In this part, I create some new sensors to try.

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

My code is ugly, but it works, so it's time to post part three of this series. In part one, I downloaded data captured by my BeerBug. In part two, I uploaded it to the Helium platform. In this entry, I'll read use Helium's API to query and graph the data.

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Monday, January 16, 2017

This piece originally appeared on the Honeycomb.io blog as part of a series on instrumentation.

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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Welcome back for part two. In part one, I explained how I exported my historical brewing data from The BeerBug's website. In this part, I'm going to demonstrate what I've learned about one alternative, the Helium platform.

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Sunday, January 1, 2017

I'm not super into the Internet-of-Things. There are no wifi lightbulbs, electronic locks, or smart thermostats in my house. But, I'm a homebrewer, and that means I love new ways to get data about my beer. I backed The BeerBug on Kickstarter, and I've used it on a number of batches since early 2014.

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