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25 lines
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author: "William Floyd"
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date: 2018-06-18
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title: Smart Rice Cooker Conversion - Part 1
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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.
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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.
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Having no real clue what I'm doing, here's what I've ordered thus far:
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Main list of things:
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- [Rice cooker](http://ali.onl/128Y) ($26.40 + $3.16 S&H - The star of the show.)
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- [Thermistors](http://ali.onl/128Q) ($2.97 - 100pcs, for temperature readings)
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- [NodeMCU](http://ali.onl/128R) ($2.47 - To, hopefully, allow me to Wifi control the whole thing)
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- [Relay](http://ali.onl/128V) ($0.76 - To switch power on and off.)
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- [ESP8266 Relay](http://ali.onl/128T) ($2.91 + $0.14 S&H - Alternative to the NodeMCU + Relay pairing I'm planning on using)
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While I have dabbled with Arduino before, this is a far more ambitious project than I have yet done.
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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).
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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.
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Many of my parts have arrived (rice cooker, thermistors, relay, and NodeMCU), so once I get home, I can hit the ground running.
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