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Kitchen Projects, Miscellany

Using Arduino for Better Homemade Bread

April 17, 2021 2 Comments
Drawing of a DIY dough proofing box that is controlled by an Arduino microcontroller

To improve my homemade bread, I built a DIY proofing box using an Arduino Uno as the microcontroller, and a string of Christmas lights as the heat source.

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The Home-Made Yogurt Routine

January 6, 2018 9 Comments
yogurt container pattern

My plastic container bin used to be loaded with 1-quart yogurt containers, and I felt packaging guilt whenever buying a new tub, even when it was local and organic. I knew that it wasn’t too hard to make yogurt at home — I had mental images of electric yogurt makers from the 1970s — but […]

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Using an Arduino-based system in kitchen projects

January 25, 2013 3 Comments

The Arduino-based system in action during yogurt making (an annotated photo at Flickr) Sometimes DIY is more about the journey than saving money, more about what you learn than what you save. This was certainly the case for me when I built a system to monitor temperature in my kitchen. A few of my kitchen […]

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