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We inherited an Aga when we moved into our house; it used to be coke fired but had been converted to gas. Generally speaking it's great and I enjoy cooking on it (and it heats our water for us) BUT it uses a lot of gas.

This scheme uses an arduino type microprocessor with a servo to turn the temperature control right down at night and during the day. The Aga takes about three hours to heat up or cool down but I reckon it must be saving quite a bit of gas (data to appear here when I have collected and analysed it!)

here's a video showing what it does after a bit of basic coding. The next stage will be to include audio input with fourier analysis to set the seed variable, key and beat.

see also
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Hacking/Programmer

1. Upload the ArduinoISP sketch (in Examples/ArduinoISP) as per usual to the Arduino board via the USB or serial.

2. Change Arduino to manual as opposed to auto-reset (I have used a seeeduino with a little switch to allow this).

3a. Log out of the IDE
3b. In (Windows) C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Arduino\preferences.txt change the line
upload.using = bootloader
to
upload.using = arduinoisp

4. Wire the proper Arduino --> stripped_down_arduino
5V --> 5V

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Dolomites Easter 2008. Now done as YouTube video.

I'm not entirely sure how YouTube orders them but it seems to vary from time to time.