eNail Magic is a device I've been working on (1st prototype phase), that sits between your e-Nail controller and your coil, and allows one to run profiles (or scripts) with various steps that turn on/off your e-Nail coil based on temperature thresholds and delays.
This allows one to press a button to start a script, and then it does all the work for you to run complex down-temp procedures to optimize your dabbing experience!
My motivation behind this is I was getting really tired of having to manage the on/off of the coil switch to do various types of modified down-temps with my D-Nail Halo and VROD, as well as I found it was difficult to coordinate and definitely greatly increased the risk of an accident! (ie. burning myself or something else!)
In comes eNail Magic! This is a first revision, so one has to edit the scripts/profiles by editing a JSON file with a JSON or text editor, and there isn't a screen yet on the device (if you want to access the screen you need to ssh into the console) since I didn't have one on hand ... should have a screen added by next week
I will also likely be implementing a full Advanced eNail using an Omron E5CC for a base (a version w/ the required communication protocols) so that my application/hardware can enhance an existing quality PID as opposed to re-invent the wheel. I believe this will get the best of both worlds. Industrial quality PID control with the advanced/cool features we all want in our eNails One will be able to automatically set PID profiles as well in this scenario (ie. set P/I/D values for different nails etc.)
Anyways ... I've had it plugged in since last night ... and I'm already wondering what I ever did without it!!!
Here's a video with some demonstration and discussion.
Current Implementation:
Current code is open source, and I'll be publishing the schematics for it as well I believe ... it's not 100% open source though ... I've published it using the Creative Commons Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-4.0) ... ie. you can freely use it for your own projects, or for educational purposes, and can freely modify, but you can't use for any commercial projects, as the code base (and idea) is owned by me.
This allows one to press a button to start a script, and then it does all the work for you to run complex down-temp procedures to optimize your dabbing experience!
My motivation behind this is I was getting really tired of having to manage the on/off of the coil switch to do various types of modified down-temps with my D-Nail Halo and VROD, as well as I found it was difficult to coordinate and definitely greatly increased the risk of an accident! (ie. burning myself or something else!)
In comes eNail Magic! This is a first revision, so one has to edit the scripts/profiles by editing a JSON file with a JSON or text editor, and there isn't a screen yet on the device (if you want to access the screen you need to ssh into the console) since I didn't have one on hand ... should have a screen added by next week
I will also likely be implementing a full Advanced eNail using an Omron E5CC for a base (a version w/ the required communication protocols) so that my application/hardware can enhance an existing quality PID as opposed to re-invent the wheel. I believe this will get the best of both worlds. Industrial quality PID control with the advanced/cool features we all want in our eNails
One will be able to automatically set PID profiles as well in this scenario (ie. set P/I/D values for different nails etc.)Anyways ... I've had it plugged in since last night ... and I'm already wondering what I ever did without it!!!
Here's a video with some demonstration and discussion.
Current Implementation:
- Right now, the only interface is the rotary dial, which you rotate to pick the profile (it flashes blue the # of times to indicate the profile # since there isn't a screen yet
- When one "clicks" the dial in, it runs the profile, the feedback in the profile is through the RGB light patterns that can be controlled through the script.
- The console, which currently shows what will be on the LCD/screen, displays the current profile, the current temperature, and an "icon" for the running step in the script if the script is running (and shows some stuff in red right now to indicate a script is running)
- You can cancel the running script by clicking the rotary dial a 2nd time
- 4 Step types allowed in a script
- Temperature Step: runs until a temperature threshold is reached in a certain direction
- Time Step: runs a delay of [n] seconds
- LED Step: activates an RGB LED pattern
- Switch Step: turns the coil on/off
- Mobile app to run scripts, see enhanced user interface, and edit profiles/steps
- Mobile app will use Bluetooth to communicate initially (I chose this network based as it doesn't require knowledge of the networks to work ... the Bluetooth communication will allow one to configure/view the network information as well). Bluetooth is a little more complex to implement, but I believe is worth it for these types of devices/applications.
- LCD or OLED display to show current profile, status, current step, current temp, etc.
- http/https communication as well for app (maybe not required)
- full e-Nail (eNail Magic Complete?)
Current code is open source, and I'll be publishing the schematics for it as well I believe ... it's not 100% open source though ... I've published it using the Creative Commons Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-4.0) ... ie. you can freely use it for your own projects, or for educational purposes, and can freely modify, but you can't use for any commercial projects, as the code base (and idea) is owned by me.
