I scrapped together some parts from Aliexpress and attached it to my weber kettle. I did chip some of the porcelain while drilling a hole but oh well. It's been going for about 2 hours now. Seems to keep my kettle at a steady 130°C as long as i keep the water tray filled up.

If there is a demand, i might put some plans/build instructions online

by simoncools

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  1. That’s so cool! I teach 7th and 8th graders Mechatronics and Engineering and I’d love to see the plans and any pics of the build along the way!

  2. Ok_Intern_1098

    Nice, now all you need to do is add WiFi and your golden!
    😁

  3. Bees__Khees

    What is it controlling. All I see is a temperature probe connecting to microcontroller. What’s the actuator. PID?

  4. Dolophonos

    I’m going down the same hole! But I’m definitely over-engineering it. Good luck! Let me know if you get better mileage from those cheap k-type max6675 probes than I did, they kept jumping 10-20F if I jiggled the wires.

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