Turkey + USB Thermometer + Cloudkick = SMS Delicious

https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/nov/23/turkey_mania/

by cloudkick • 16 years ago

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mey3• 16 years ago

Is there a cooking probe thermometer that supports USB? This Go!Temp probe only claims 130C/266F as it's max operating range, and isn't clear if that temp also applies to the electronics housing package just behind the probe.

I'd be great to have something that is wrapped in silicone, safe for oven use up to around 550F that has a detachable daughter board that connects to USB.

HeyLaughingBoy4• 16 years ago

It's the probe rating. It'll be interesting to see how long the USB electronics survive if they get up to that temperature. Industrial temperature range is typically only up to 70C and I don't think I've ever seen even Automotive/Military IC's that can operate at 130C

What you're looking for is pretty easy to build at lower temperatures: just put a temperature probe in a stainless steel housing and route the sensor leads out to USB data collection that's at a safe temperature. The off the shelf units tend to be expensive because they're aimed at food-grade applications, not at hobbyists.

At temperatures of 550F, then you need to use thermocouples which are a bit harder to interface to, so hobbyists tend to shy away. Again, plenty of commercial products at this range, but expensive.

mey3• 16 years ago

I do already have an oxo probe ( http://www.oxo.com/p-558-digital-leave-in-meat-thermometer.a... ) that works well, will have to see if the wife would be willing to let me hack it up a bit.

polvi• 16 years ago

Yes, we were afraid that we would push the thing over its limits... thus smoking the turkey at 200-250F. For a little while (and you'll see it in the graph in the post) the thermometer registered 32F because we pushed it too far. Once we got the temp below 300F, it seemed to work just fine.

HeyLaughingBoy4• 16 years ago

That's funny. I'm sitting here writing code to do the same thing (well temperature monitoring anyway, just not for turkeys) but using my own wireless temperature hardware.

dedward• 16 years ago

Cool from the hacker perspective - but I can't help thinking it could equally have ended up a "How I caused an electrical/grease/plastic fire in my back yard, causing a toxic lithium-ion battery explosion, and definitely ruined the bird."

pquerna• 16 years ago

Sure, all possible, but actually the Backwoods smoker we use is very nice -- its insulated, it can be 300 degrees on the inside, and cool to the touch on the top of it -- you can see in the photo that we sat a plastic tub on top of it, without any worries.

TobiasCassell• 16 years ago

These guys in Portland, Oregon have similar fun every year. If I recall correctly, the site used to be more descriptive but maybe it becomes more robust on the holiday.

http://turkeytracker.com/#&panel1-1

Edit Haa!!! This is what I was looking for, here is a wealth of information regarding live-streaming your bird's journey- http://www.turkeytracker.com/blog/

duffbeer703• 16 years ago

I'm pretty sure that if you get a data logger like this (http://www.microdaq.com/lascar/temperature/usb-thermocouple-...) and combine it with a good thermocouple probe and you should be good to go.

aquarin2• 16 years ago

It is "turkey" not "Turkey" - the country. This headline seems to capitalize all the words and this changes the meaning.

Dobbs• 16 years ago

Turkey when starting a sentence or in a title is still capitalized. English is often a context based language. This is one of those times. The meaning is evident if you read the rest of the title.

aquarin2• 16 years ago

Yes it is. But this is not sentence, it is equation. And every word in equation is capitalized. At least words can be reordered.

joshu2• 16 years ago

Using a whole laptop seems insane.

I would pay for someone to build an xbee-based wireless temperature network, though. Any hardware hackers around?

HeyLaughingBoy4• 16 years ago

Does it have to be xbee? I have a Bluetooth prototype working.

joshu2• 16 years ago

Is that using a Bluetooth shield on an arduino? What's the range?

petercooper• 16 years ago

I can't be the only one who clicked trying to work out how a USB thermometer could be used in making a USB based distributed bookmarking service (i.e. Delicious). Facepalm for me!

Turkey + USB Thermometer + Cloudkick = SMS Delicious

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