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Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« on: April 23, 2012, 05:37:52 am »
Anyone messed with this? i saw it when i downloaded mrmalty app.
http://software.druidhillroad.com/software.druidhillroad.com/Brew_Buddy.html
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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2012, 11:23:14 am »
Looks like a really shiny, expensive way to lose control of your brew day if you ask me.

From what I Googled, it looks like the controller logic isn't accessible. That means your at the mercy of the original program.

I do quite a bit of controller programming at work, so maybe I'm the only guy that wants that much control. But if you're going to pony up the dough for a controller - shouldnt it control what and how you want it to?
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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 11:41:03 am »
harkening back to that rules of grammer and spelling thread, I hope these guys have better syntax and grammer when programming then when writing copy.
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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2012, 07:44:22 pm »
Good thhing programming doesn't require proper grammar
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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 09:26:57 pm »
Good thhing programming doesn't require proper grammar

doesn't require proper English grammar but those computers tend to pretty picky about computer 'grammar'
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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2012, 10:23:36 pm »
Good thhing programming doesn't require proper grammar

doesn't require proper English grammar but those computers tend to pretty picky about computer 'grammar'

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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2012, 07:06:18 pm »
The BCS-460 has an open-ish API. This app is just a wrapper around that.

http://www.embeddedcontrolconcepts.com/wiki/index.php?title=Open_Interface_API


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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2012, 08:30:33 pm »
Good thhing programming doesn't require proper grammar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar

If you don't think so, try to write a compiler ;-)
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Re: Brew Buddy BCS-460 your thoughts
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2012, 09:29:52 am »
Good thhing programming doesn't require proper grammar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar

If you don't think so, try to write a compiler ;-)

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