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I used to use old coke bottles, baby bottle sterilising tablets, cheap apple juice, bread yeast, granulated sugar, an electric blanket and a condom to brew cider when I was a kid. Worked like a dream, until I got caught. Didn't cost $500 either and took only a couple of days more...
Ha! Prison "pruno" as a teenager. Did the parents find the shanks too :)
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A link to the actual site is more useful: http://themiraclemachine.net/
I'm wondering how hard it would be to reverse engineer this, reading the "we're keeping the exact science under wraps". It's an "Arduino microcontroller" -I wonder who came up with this expression, since the Arduino is the board -. How can someone customize it to make a different kind of liquor.. Or connect two of which functions are inverse: Water into wine, and then into water again..
$500 seems rather excessive to me for something that is mainly presumably a peltier, H-Bridge and MCU along with a bluetooth chip. I currently make beer, but if I was going to make wine, I'd instead look at sourcing good quality grapes, and just fermenting reasonably cool in a fridge rigged up to a PID. On the topic of artificially aging wine this article is rather fascinating http://people.math.aau.dk/~cornean/index…
I checked out the page and it does seem like a real project, and could be pretty cool. But I think attaching a hyperbolic "miracle" name to an otherwise interesting home winemaking device hurts their credibility.
Let's call it Jesus Machine
... I'll show my self out..
On a marketing note: I get why they've chosen this name, but I think it's a bad idea. It raised all of my snake oil red flags initially. I checked out the page and it does seem like a real project, and could be pretty cool. But I think attaching a hyperbolic "miracle" name to an otherwise interesting home winemaking device hurts their credibility.
$500 seems rather excessive to me for something that is mainly presumably a peltier, H-Bridge and MCU along with a bluetooth chip. I currently make beer, but if I was going to make wine, I'd instead look at sourcing good quality grapes, and just fermenting reasonably cool in a fridge rigged up to a PID. On the topic of artificially aging wine this article is rather fascinating http://people.math.aau.dk/~cornean/index…