Limor and Phil are up to plenty of good over at Adafruit Industries, where they’re working on controlling a hotplate for soldering circuit boards. Check out the video of Limor demonstrating how the laser-cut wheel and servo controls the temperature knob for the hotplate.
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Nice :)
Also interesting Tutorial from Julian and from SpkFun:
– http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2007/01/20/reflow-skillet-mxc6202/
– http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=59&page=#Hot%20Plate%20Reflowing
Cheers,
Jb