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Links

Many hours on the Internet have resulted in a large collection of links. But there are a few links that I want to mention in particular. The most important one for me was Rick Calley's site, which got me hooked. He got me thinking about a HERMS setup. The links below will surely help you if you are looking for more information on home-brewing and RIMS/HERMS systems:

• Rick Calley's RIMS Homebrew page: THE example for me of a RIMS setup. Excellent site! Rick has been my inspiration for building a RIMS setup
• Joe Stones Computer Controlled RIMS Page: Joe uses a 286 PC with an ADIO board. He wrote the program himself. I used the same approach, but use an I²C controller with dedicated I²C chips instead of one ADIO board. Lots of useful information.
• C.D. Pritchard's RIMS Page: A lot of construction details can be found. C.D. uses a Basic Stamp to automate things, which works excellent. Advantage is that it is very small. Disadvantage is the small amount of IO. But newer Basic Stamps come with integrated I²C commands, so it is easy to add additional hardware. He has some interesting remarks on fluid level transducers.
• Dion Hollenbeck's RIMS Info Page: Excellent site on automation of a brewing setup. Learned many things from Dion. He has a very interesting description of the use of a MPX2010 pressure sensor to read the fluid level in the pan.
• Building a 3-tier Home Brewery (Scott Kaczorowski): Good explanation on construction
• Keith Royster's RIMS: Nice example of a RIMS setup
• Hobbybrouwen. This site contains a lot of information for the home-brewer (in Dutch), including many useful links. In the forum of this site you can establish contacts with other home-brewers, ask questions and exchange information. Most home-brewers upload their recipes and their experiences, making this THE site to learn about brewing.
• Amateur Home Brew club 't Wort Wat!: Many articles and stories on home-brewing. From the well-known Dutch home-brewing club
• Beer Inspectors Guild: Lots of information (Dutch) about inspecting beer, you can even follow courses about it!
• Brewzilla, everything on (home) beer brewing: Excellent site with lots of information. Check out the Home Brewery Index.

The following people, have nothing to do with home-brewing, but they use some of my software, ideas and/or electronics to automate things. Check it out, because there's a nice variety of topics:

• The web-site of my brew buddy George. He is also a professional construction builder.
• Ronald Rakké's electronics site: My (ex)colleague, drinking buddy and brother in arms. Creates great Visual Basic applications for the I2C bus. Check out his humidity sensor hardware and software!
• Logt Audio. The web-site of my youngest brother Leon. Great electronics engineer, although he studied physics. I did study electrical engineering, but I can still learn lots of things from him (check out his filter section!). Audio without ANY compromise! I created his initial program for the PIC16C84. He uses this PIC in his audio amplifiers to control everything (volume, LCD display, IR-remote control are all controlled by this PIC).
• Marco Mantel's KOI carp site. Dutch only. What do KOI carps and brewing have in common? Well temperature control for example. Marco is experimenting with a LM92 temperature sensor and I helped him a little in programming and creating a Visual Basic routine to read the temperature. Very impressive site!

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