The BBQ Report

If you are a hardcore BBQ nerd, check out this new grilling gadget DIY kit. Even though cooking is an elegant art form, the at-home chef often has a number of fancy gadgets. From counter top grills to USB coolers, high end electronics have made themselves available in most aspects of modern food preparation and enjoyment.

With Father’s Day and July 4th grilling right around the corner, these guys decided to build a DIY Digital Meat Thermometer using a temperature sensor, an LCD, and a microcontroller.

In this video tutorial, the designers outline the process for building the DIY Digital Meat Thermometer. In order to speed up the measured reading, they estimate what the transfer function of the system is and use a predictive filter to “guess” what the actual temperature is at the tip of our probe.

The concepts, and the some of the intuition behind it, are presented in the video tutorial. The meat thermometer can be used with a computer to give a live temperature graph, or be used with just the LCD. Whether it’s a fathers day gift, or just a fun weekend project, this little gadget is sure to draw some attention at the next family cookout.

Full kit available.