RoastGeek

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I'm pretty happy with my SR500 and intend to use it as my primary home roaster when I'm done but I'm thinking about trying to build a couple bigger ones on my own for 1-5 lbs. I have an older Fresh Roast Plus 8 around that I'll probably wire into directly first when I start the control phase of thin...

This site was created originally as a blog for my efforts at creating a coffee roasting computer. After several blogs I've added the forums to allow people to create topics and discuss things that would not typically be easy to do in a blog. For now the blog will continue to remain on the site as th...

At first I started off with a Parallax Basic Stamp. Many people have used the Basic Stamp as a platform for their coffee roaster. I started off programming it to control temperature by flipping on and off various relays. Next I interfaced a 20x4 LCD to monitor the temperature coming from the thermoc...

I've been messing around with a Fresh Roast Coffee Roaster for many months now. I've noticed the lack of ability to control the roaster very accurately starting with the Fresh Roast Plus 8. Recently I got a SR500 and while it has more controls it has many limits still. As a result I began working on...