Neon Aurora
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I was spending some time with my SO last night and I mentioned I will probably need to buy another Herpstat before breeding season rolls around so that I can have two incubators; one for males and one for females. Obviously, Herpstats are an investment. He mentioned that I could probably use a Raspberry Pi, which is apparently a small computer that you can program to do just about anything. Now, I know nothing about programming, but he does. He thinks it would be relatively easy to program it to do the same thing a Herpstat does with the same (or better) accuracy and he could teach me how to program it. It's only $30, so it could definitely be worth it if it has the same level of accuracy.
Has anyone tried this?
If I go ahead and do it, then I'll probably be making a thread on how I did it with instructions and everything. The best part; once we get it programmed to perfection, I can share the code on here and then anyone can buy a Raspberry Pi and just use the code so you won't have to program it yourself.
It also isn't limited to just temperature. You could control the humidity and O2 levels as well. I'm probably not going to go into all of that because controlling the humidity and O2 levels is very easy to do manually. But it is pretty cool.
Has anyone tried this?
If I go ahead and do it, then I'll probably be making a thread on how I did it with instructions and everything. The best part; once we get it programmed to perfection, I can share the code on here and then anyone can buy a Raspberry Pi and just use the code so you won't have to program it yourself.
It also isn't limited to just temperature. You could control the humidity and O2 levels as well. I'm probably not going to go into all of that because controlling the humidity and O2 levels is very easy to do manually. But it is pretty cool.