Is there a cheap way to keep track of temperature over a period of time?

[Pixalated]

I am looking for something I can tape to the side of my fermentor and have it record the temperature every X minutes. Then, I want to plug it into my computer and see how the temperature has been fluctuating.

 

[PortlandPatrick]

A blogger down the road from me wrote this post last year, so the model she references might not be the latest and greatest (or even the best choice for you), but it's a starting point: New Toy « Cold House Journal

 

[Pixalated]

$115 seems pricey

 

[PortlandPatrick]

$115 seems pricey

Like I said, it's a starting point.

They have a $65 model - http://www.onsetcomp.com/products/data-loggers/u10-001

 

[audger]

you can do this with a $3 temp sensor (DS18B20), a $15 arduino board, and either an arduino SD card shield, or a computer to log the data to. depends on how handy you are with these things though.

you can really use any microcontroller you want (stamp, picaxe, TI launchpad, FPGAs).

 

[dallasdb]

Have SWMBO go to your fermentor every 5 minutes and write the temp on a notepad.

Cheap and easy!

 

[Spartan1979]

Have SWMBO go to your fermentor every 5 minutes and write the temp on a notepad.

Cheap and easy!

I would think that wouldn't be cheap or easy.

 

[Pixalated]

you can do this with a $3 temp sensor (DS18B20), a $15 arduino board, and either an arduino SD card shield, or a computer to log the data to. depends on how handy you are with these things though.

you can really use any microcontroller you want (stamp, picaxe, TI launchpad, FPGAs).

This sounds pretty neat, and I will look into it. I've always wanted to mess around with arduino.

 

[brushvalleybrewer]

Have SWMBO go to your fermentor every 5 minutes and write the temp on a notepad.

Cheap and easy!

+1

 

[PortlandPatrick]

Like I said, it's a starting point.

They have a $65 model - http://www.onsetcomp.com/products/data-loggers/u10-001

How did you make out? Did you buy/make/other something?