RevSmoker

Project RevSmoker
Status	Initializing
Contact	User:Gori
Last Update	2013-01-18

What

Because smoked dead animals are at least as tasty as BBQed dead animals, we need to have a nice smoker. While the BigGreenEggBBQ can act as a smoker as well, it has a fairly limited capacity. Furhtermore, it can not be electrically operated, which makes temperature control more tricky.

So enter RevSmoker.

Design

The idea is to use a steel drum to build something like this but over 9000 times cooler, with electronics and blinkenlights.

Design ideas :

• Trashcan smoker
• Ugly Drum Smoker
• Alternative, 2 chamber design : http://makeprojects.com/Project/The+Nellie+Bly+Smoker/2619/#.UPlIrZHU424

Mechanical and electrical parts

• steel drum that used to hold pineapple juice
• a wood chip box
• one or two grids to hold the dead animal parts being smoked
• a cover with a handle
• a electrical stove, for heating the wood chips
• extension cord

Electronic parts

• a thermometer keeping track of the temp.
• an arduino to measure the temperature, display it on a small LCD screen and control the heater using a relay
• a 220V relay
• a TMP36 temp sensor
• a SED1531LCD display to show the current / target temp
  • LCD datasheet
  • example code
  • LCD wiki
• a turn knob to adjust the temp

Software parts

• PID library relay control example