PLAATO - a fancy new airlock

[Zephyr259]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1792157374/plaato-reinventing-the-airlock/description

Looks kinda funky, but I'm curious about accuracy. Since it's measuring released CO2 then it's missing all the dissolved gas, but thinking about it this isn't actually all that much compared to the total produced is it?

The other issue I see is that certain brews really need a blow off tube (or so I'm told) which isn't an option with this.

Thought others might be interested to know about this.

 

[Personal91]

Looks pretty cool, but it is pricy :/

 

[Fil]

load of tat, at the best of times co2 bubbles are only a rough indicator of yeast activity and progress, not forgetting the shed, garage and full blown housing estate full of variables that will be different from one brew bucket of beer to the next ..
speidle the brewmeister folk have one already on the market for a similarly silly price
https://shop.speidels-braumeister.de/en/accessories/fermenting/gaerspundmobil
and this is an old arduino project doing it
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...ls/131&usg=AFQjCNHVKiP-spf3mjATRWXmZ_NOv48rAQ

 

[user 18729]

load of tat, at the best of times co2 bubbles are only a rough indicator of yeast activity and progress, not forgetting the shed, garage and full blown housing estate full of variables that will be different from one brew bucket of beer to the next ..
speidle the brewmeister folk have one already on the market for a similarly silly price
https://shop.speidels-braumeister.de/en/accessories/fermenting/gaerspundmobil
and this is an old arduino project doing it
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...ls/131&usg=AFQjCNHVKiP-spf3mjATRWXmZ_NOv48rAQ

[emoji23] think I'll stick to a hydrometer and a bubbler!

 

[Pawlo7671]

$149.00 for this !! I think i'm all good with my normal bubblers that cost me a couple of quid for 2 from wilko's.

 

[foxbat]

Don't waste time thinking about it because it's a Kickstarter which means that it'll never be delivered and in the unlikely event something does get produced it'll be a year late and won't work.

 

[Graz]

Pretty pointless really and trying to cover a need that really isn't there. I can tell how my beer / wine is progressing just by looking at it and it I'm unsure I'll take a gravity reading. Takes all of 5 minutes.

I also brew both wine and beer in plastic buckets, never used an airlock for beer brewing but did try to use one for wine. Not a single bubble came through it despite the obviously active fermentation and bulging lid on the FV. No use if you can't properly seal your vessel.

I'm ooot

 

[Graz]

Don't waste time thinking about it because it's a Kickstarter which means that it'll never be delivered and in the unlikely event something does get produced it'll be a year late and won't work.

Or even worse the Chinese get wind of your idea and flood the market with cheap copies before you even manage to ship any, the comments section does not make good reading :lol:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antsylabs/fidget-cube-a-vinyl-desk-toy/description

 

[strange-steve]

Maybe with a demijohn or carboy this would be ok, but most plastic bucket type FVs aren't airtight. Only one of mine actually forms a good enough seal for the airlock to bubble.

 

[IainM]

It is completely unnecessary and expensive but it is pretty cool and measures the actual volume of CO2 instead of just counting bloops. If I had cash to burn there would be a load brewing stuff I'd buy before getting this.

 

[Zephyr259]

Yeah, I share the same thoughts as most of you. It's similar to the Tilt but a bit more expensive once it's on RRP.

 

[Fil]

where the ispindel is a lot cheaper and while involves a little soldering will give you more useful and credible information .. just dont buy from the designers web store, i think going by the customer service reports its not what the guys enjoy doing, and they would rater spend time hacking and pottering than servicing mail order demands perhaps??
other than the 3d printed sled its all standard bits, and the sled can be made from anything really.. semi rigid packing foam would work well imho..
https://hackaday.io/project/20421-ispindel
https://github.com/universam1/iSpindel

 

[Zephyr259]

Oh, I'd forgotten about those. Might be worth a go.

 

[telenomus]

Not to sound like a luddite, but what an unnecessary waste of money to brew beer. No need for something connected to a cell phone in order to make homebrew.

 

[Dutto]

Yet again, a "Solution" to a "Problem that doesn't exist!" ...

... plus, I doubt that the electronics will cope when the wort decides to leave the FV!

For me it's a "No thank-you." :nono: