I looked out my window the other day and saw a squirrel munching on the wires of my solar powered LED string. It managed to snip off a two foot section of wire before disappearing below my deck, dragging the wire with it. I ran out the door to stop it but it was gone by then. I knew where it went.
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Smoker Controller Hack
Smoker Controller Hack is a project to rescue a malfunctioning electric smoker from the trash heap. In a nutshell, the smoker’s display unit was dead. Other parts appeared to work. The smoker’s manufacturer has moved on to new things and the replacement part to fix this smoker is no longer available. In the depths of Covid-19 isolation, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to rescue a device from obsolescence and learn a lot about electronics, Arduinos, and working with plexiglass.
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