I'd recommend not messing with local storage, but immediately forward it to a real computer, either over USB or a network, if you possibly can.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 3:06 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2022, Russell Senior wrote: > > > The worldwide supply of raspberry pi's available through ordinary retail > > channels is zero right now (or was the last I looked). But they'd be a > > good choice. > > Russell, > > Huh! Part of the computer chip shortage? > > > The missing information is "how far away is your coffee roaster?" If you > > are close enough, you could use a microcontroller like an arduino or > > similar and interface with the sensor of your choice directly to a PC over > > USB. Your range with USB is usually 5 meters. > > I want a small unit (an arduino would be fine) that sits next to the roaster > and stores data on an SD card, USB drive, or similar storage device. > > > I don't know very much about measuring temperatures up to 500F, I am > > mostly interested in air temps and related phenomena. Look on some place > > like adafruit.com for a sensor and how to interface with it. > > There seem to be availble probes but finding a sensor to which the probe > connects that works with an arduino or raspberry pi has been a challenge. > > The adafruit.com web site has a probe/sensor with a maximum temperature of > 125F and I didn't see a 'contact us' link where I could ask about a higher > temperature sensor. > > Thanks, > > Rich >
