Once I was able to get into my Rasberry Pi (RPi) I started to think about how I was going to use it. I was pretty far along on my Ardunio controller and circuit schematics that I started to think that I would connect the serial cable to the Ardunio and build upon my existing design.<\/p>\n
So I started to look at Craftbeerpi<\/a> which seemed to have a pretty solid start on what I wanted. The more I looked it seemed to not have support to read from an Ardunio to the pre-made widgets. So I started scheming ideas to make my own program. For better or worse I was leaning towards a Python development. My brief time using Python wasn’t too great and I hated the tabbing format for block commands (if statements, loops, etc). However, after looking around it seems to be one of the more popular languages and something I should probably be more familiar with. From what I could see Django<\/a> was about my best option as it looked like I would be able to get something up and running quickly. If I could follow instructions better I would have Django<\/a> setup in about 20 mins, instead I spent a day fumbling with errors before I re-read the instructions.<\/p>\n With Django<\/a> setup I started to wonder if I was making this too hard. So tonight I re-visited my I\/O needs from my Arduino<\/a> controller vs what RPi offers. Turns out RPi can fully support my needs and I don’t have to deal with interfacing with the Arduino a bit more. With that simplifcation, Craftbeerpi<\/a> is now back to being my quickest way to getting a Brewstand Controller working. I think I’d still like to make my own program, but given that I tend not to have much free time (unless it is late at night) I seriously doubt that will ever happen once I get a controller working with Craftbeerpi.<\/a> So now I just need to tweak the circuits a bit to adjust for 3.3V outputs and watching the currents. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once I was able to get into my Rasberry Pi (RPi) I started to think about how I was going to use it. I was pretty far along on my Ardunio controller and circuit schematics that I started to think that I would connect the serial cable to the Ardunio and build upon my existing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[234,141,448,447,112,442],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beerprojects","tag-brewstand","tag-controller","tag-craftbeerpi","tag-django","tag-home-brew","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}