From 4c54981fcaf41c67cc4056d66f0206c31a781e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Floyd Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:20:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] rice: Changes, fixes, additions. --- content/post/smart-rice-cooker-part-1.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/post/smart-rice-cooker-part-1.md b/content/post/smart-rice-cooker-part-1.md index c9ded29..00968ea 100644 --- a/content/post/smart-rice-cooker-part-1.md +++ b/content/post/smart-rice-cooker-part-1.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: 2018-06-18 title: Smart Rice Cooker Conversion - Part 1 --- -The "why" isn't important (read "doesn't exist"), but I want to take a regular (dumb) rice cooker, and convert it into a "smart" rice cooker. +The "why" isn't important (read "doesn't exist"), but I want to take a regular old "dumb" rice cooker, and convert it into a "smart" rice cooker. So, a whim and a few minutes on Aliexpress later, my pint sized rice cooker and an assortment of electronics are on the slow boat from China. @@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ Main list of things: - [Rice cooker](http://ali.onl/128Y) ($26.40 + $3.16 S&H - The star of the show.) - [Thermistors](http://ali.onl/128Q) ($2.97 - 100pcs, for temperature readings) -- [NodeMCU](http://ali.onl/128R) ($2.47 - To, hopefully, allow my to Wifi control the thing) +- [NodeMCU](http://ali.onl/128R) ($2.47 - To, hopefully, allow me to Wifi control the whole thing) - [Relay](http://ali.onl/128V) ($0.76 - To switch power on and off.) - [ESP8266 Relay](http://ali.onl/128T) ($2.91 + $0.14 S&H - Alternative to the NodeMCU + Relay pairing I'm planning on using) While I have dabbled with Arduino before, this is a far more ambitious project than I have yet done. -Ideally, I will have the rice cooker serve an API, which my Orance Pi will bounce requests across to as dictated by a frontend hosted on the same machine (this avoids CORS mess). +Ideally, I will have the rice cooker serve an API, which my Orange Pi will bounce requests across to as dictated by a frontend hosted on the same machine (this resolves CORS, while still allowing options to control the rice cooker by other devices). + +For now though, I am away from home, working, so I can't do anything on this for at least another 2 weeks, probably 3. +Many of my parts have arrived (rice cooker, thermistors, relay, and NodeMCU), so once I get home, I can hit the ground running.