My improved fully custom Volcano Vaporizer, "The V2"

[Scripto23]

So I'd like to share with you my creation, The V2. It's an Arduino powered vaporizer based off of the Volcano valve set.

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl0Jey6PeFs
Pics http://imgur.com/a/jxnF4/t1j4m (yes, the innards are a mess)

Other than the heat gun and Volcano valves, everything else was built from scratch, even the programming code was written from the ground up.

On the outside there is a power button, the wheel controls fan speed, up/down buttons for adjusting target temperature, LCD readout of current and target temperatures, two switches for the two peripheral lights, and lighted acrylic status lights.

Feel free to ask any questions.

 

[Pappy]

Congrats! Very nice. I liked everything except the part with the bag.

 

[VWFringe]

looks quick, nice seeing the vapor in the headlights, heat gun prolly isn't rohs compliant, but who am i to talk, i'm sucking on a soldering iron.

they'll prolly' merge your thread with the "homemade vaporizers" thread, just look there if you lose track of it...

thanks for posting the pics, and the video!

 

[VaporNation]

That is crazy awesome! I love your LCD display and the symbols for your temperature status.

I can't believe how fast the balloon fills up...very impressive.

 

[Egzoset]

Stimulating! Can this be made to record charts, like energy input vs temperature, and make the data available via USB or flash memory?

 

[Scripto23]

Stimulating! Can this be made to record charts, like energy input vs temperature, and make the data available via USB or flash memory?

This would probably be quite easy to do. It already stores the last temperature setting into EEPROM memory (so when you turn it off and turn it back on it's at the same temp) It would most likely just involve a few additional lines of code added in. Though in the future I plan to add in an old ipod LCD screen which will display a real time graph of temp, fan speed, and maybe some other variables.

 

[Stu]

That bottle of everclear you have in one of your pictures has an interesting color to it

 

[biojuggernaut]

funkadelic. I swear the unit was gonna grow insect like legs and crawl across your table when you folded down those lights. What made you pick Arduino

 

[elmomuzz]

That's really cool. So there is no heat mass just the gun running constantly? I can only imaging pulling it out at a party. They must think of you as the mad scientist.

 

[lepstadder]

pretty cool!!!

 

[TerrorTurkey]

looks cool. is that aluminum control arms from a T-Maxx holding the heatgun on?

 

[Scripto23]

What made you pick Arduino

I picked Arduino mostly because there are so many tutorials and a great amount of community support, making this project progress more smoothly. Especially because I had never done anything with C code or any programming at all until this.

So there is no heat mass just the gun running constantly?

Yes, there is no heat mass, however it is not really necessary because the heat gun element temp output can be very precisely controlled via a solid state relay which is being fed a logarithmic equation from one of the Arduino PWM (pulse width modulation) pins. In other words, it heats up very quickly but as it nears the target temp power decreases exponentially.

looks cool. is that aluminum control arms from a T-Maxx holding the heatgun on?

Haha good eye. They are actually control arms from an old HPI Racer 2 which I had bent slightly out of shape in a wreck a few years ago.

 

[mustachio420]

you should make it so that it can also pump out the dubstep...

and maybe something a little dirtier like this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7RdDcSM_OY

 

[slain]

wow that is awesome. thats something you would see at the MIT bong wars