Prelude.

A while back I was having a conversation with someone, and for reasons I will never comprehend the conversation ended up here:

• R: You could easily build a sous vide controller using a Raspberry-Pi and a cheap kettle.
• Me: You don’t actually need a Pi, an Arduino or something like it will do the job just fine.
• Me: Although, if you did use a Pi, you could build a sous vide machine with a web interface… and WiFi… and BlueTooth…

And then conversation carried of on some absurd tangent about how stupidly simple it would be to add all sorts of completely absurd features that no-one needed or asked for.

So here we are, building the world’s most unnecessarily over complicated sous vide machine.

On a (slightly) more serious note.

This project is my no stretch of the imagination supposed to be a serious, elegant, efficient or even sane solution.

If you want a how-to article on building a thermal controller… this isn’t it.

So what’s the plan.

I’m going to document this project as a series of articles. Each article will focus on some feature or building block that I’ll be adding to the puzzle.