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Let’s Cook Arrosticini Using Open-Source Hardware

Figure 5: Motorized grill

Figure 6: General system layout. A display can be added by con-
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as constant as possible. But that’s where the fun (and the taste) lies! necting it to Arduino via I C.
Before starting cooking, novice grillers will need to study up on how the
cooking time affects the taste. The skill of the cook in positioning and
removing the arrosticini at the right time is also very important.
The motorized control system requires using a fornacella grill, as implemented on Arduino. But the hardware solutions already have
shown in Figure 5. We will connect our motor at one end of the grill to libraries that allow you to manage operations, easily taking the mathe-
perform the rotation. matical model into account. ■
The “calibration” of the system will determine the cooking time, usu-
ally about 1 to 2 minutes per side, depending on personal taste as well as Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio is a staff correspondent at AspenCore
the temperature of the fi re. The important thing is to keep the tempera- editor o o er ectronics e s and editor in c ie o e .
ture constant when adding coal. Figure 6 presents a general layout.
REFERENCES
CONCLUSION 1. Application Note: The Science of Grilling Meat (http://bit.ly/36faJfW)
The hardware project presented here is a basis for having fun 2. Arduino Projects (http://bit.ly/2NLPhcg)
implementing other solutions. We have not described the fi rmware 3. Motor Tutorial (http://bit.ly/36fOR4n)

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