Automated home brewing system

The WilliamsWarn Nanobrewery <a href="http://www.williamswarn.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.williamswarn.com</a> is the most elegant solution to home brewing out there. The control system (which was done by a company related to me), had to be complex enough to cope with everything going on, simple enough to operate by anyone and flexible enough to allow the brewer to create. I'm obviously biased - but the nanobrewery is getting great reviews.

NI had a section of demos like this at their technical conference this August. They were all hobby projects. Things that engineers just thought "were cool" and were stupidly easy to make with this hardware. There was a crane game, a 6-foot-tall aluminum slingshot controller for Angry Birds, and a compactRIO-powered guitar amp.<p>It's startling to think of how much money/time engineers save with prototyping and graphical system design software like this, and even though NI stuff powers telescopes and water filtration systems and loads of other important stuff, things like this come out and remind everyone that there's fun to be had.

I really like "The Electric Brewery". The plans are easily available and you can buy all the parts from them and build it yourself (or, if that's not your thing, you can buy the panel pre-built): <a href="http://theelectricbrewery.com/" rel="nofollow">http://theelectricbrewery.com/</a><p>It's a good combination of automation-where-it-hurts and still-hands-on-where-it's-fun - some of the other ones seem too automated and take all the fun out of it (we're homebrewers, not looking to start the next Budweiser).

An interesting approach. I wonder how much regularity he gets out of his brews, given that everything's so tightly controlled.<p>Personally, I think part of the fun of homebrewing is coming up with your own unique take on a recipe. The mishaps that create something weird in your beer make for a good story.

Can I buy one?

This is amazing.