# My tweeting, Ugly Drum Smoker temperature controller; please vote! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090 "2013-08-24T21:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090/1 "2013-08-24T21:58:30Z")
I’ve recently created a temperature controller for Ugly Drum Smokers (UDS) that runs on an Android device. The geek factor is that it also tweets so you can know immediately every time I’m smoking something (you need to know this!). I’m pretty proud of the effort and wanted to share: If you don’t have a smoker you can build one! Lastly, if any of you are Instructable members and find either of those instructions worthy I’d apprecate a contest vote. The voting button is in the upper right. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090/2 "2013-08-24T22:01:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090/3 "2013-08-24T22:06:35Z")
Dag. I read the instructions for the MPSIMS forum and didn’t see rules against it. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090/4 "2013-08-24T22:07:28Z")
Heh. I didn’t notice you’d been here since 2008! :o ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090/5 "2013-08-24T23:04:14Z")
Reading the thread title I thought this maybe had something to do with an ugly, Twitter-using person who smokes [Drum Tobacco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_%28tobacco%29) and causes temperature fluctuations. I was all 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tweeting-ugly-drum-smoker-temperature-controller-please-vote/667090/6 "2013-08-25T01:05:29Z")
Actually, I’ve taken the links out, simply because of your line about it being a contest and asking for votes. We ask that you ask mods ahead of time for permission to post things like that, it’s part of the ruleset that Johnny LA posted. Get permission first, most of the time it’s ok. Thread closed in the meantime.