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New machine turns water into wine in three days

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Re: New machine turns water into wine in three days

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Where's the rest ? I mean the part containing the technical stuff, not the one saying "Miracle Machine".

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..

Re: New machine turns water into wine in three days

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$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.html/ACwine.pdf where they use HV AC to apparently decrease the harshness of un-aged wine. Additionally if you did want to age wine you can get small oak barrels from ebay relatively cheaply.

Re: New machine turns water into wine in three days

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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...

Re: New machine turns water into wine in three days

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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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