This past weekend, i picked up my cheese aging "cave" - a large commercial refrigerator with glass doors. (looks like the one in the photo here). It was used at a natural foods co-op in Sacramento, but has been retired and in storage for a while.
The owner - a friend of a friend - gifted me the fridge to use for cheese making, which was super generous because I don't even know them. I'll meet them soon enough though - I definitely owe them some cheese for this!
We don't really have space for it, so the fridge is going to live in a storage room under a friend's house. It's in downtown Oakland, a few miles from my own home, so I got to thinking that it would be very handy to be able to monitor the temp and humidity in the fridge remotely.
I've been playing around with the Arduino microprocessor lately and checking out other peoples' projects, and recalled seeing something about a twitter-ing humidor that used an Arduino. I googled "arduino hygrometer" and this came up.
Looks easy enough to implement, right? I'm going to order another Arduino, the hygrometer/thermometer sensor, and an XBee wireless module. I'll be sure to document the project and post it on Instructables and here so that you can build your own.
Yes, I am going to have a wireless tweeting refrigerator.
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