PID Controller – Basic Intro A PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) controller is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other ...

New Book Release The new book, PID-Based Practical Digital Control with Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno , is about using the Raspberry Pi 4 and Arduino Uno in PID-based automatic control applications.

They used an Arduino to control the temperature and a motor shield to power the peltier plate. It kind of worked but they discovered it was difficult to assess the physical state of the chocolate.

This is a replacement for the commercial PID unit he used on the original build. That monitored the temperature in the smoker, using predictive algorithms to maintain just the right heat level.