More brewing stuff

Some wonderful people have developed a single-board computer that can run Linux - meet Raspberry Pi. For $35 or so, you get a machine with 256MB RAM, two USB ports (keyboard, mouse and I/O), Ethernet and Audio ports, an HDMI connector for Video and an SD Card interface for your operating system. Available from Allied Electronics Planning on getting one myself to tinker with over this winter. Used to do a lot of embedded programming and spent a lot of time with Linux. Anyway, check out BrewPi. It is a home-brewing temperature controller and logger using a Raspberry Pi, a display screen, some solid state relays for compressor and light (heater) and lots of data logging features. Looks like a fun project and it has been released as open source so anyone can add features, fix bugs, etc...