Building a Robotic Bartender - Part 1: Planning and Design

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Our goal is to automate domestic bartending. The problems we are tying to solve are spilled beverages, poorly mixed drinks, and mixing speed at a social gathering. The automated bartender is not meant to replace human bartenders; rather, it is designed to enhance the mixology experience.
We've built an Arduino + Raspberry Pi powered robotic bartender before (), but it mixed drinks too slow to be practical. We want to build a new (circular) version which is faster, more accurate, and can mix more than one drink at a time. In this series, we plan to show you how to build all the components so that you can make your own.
Here are some other linear bartenders that we hope to improve upon:
The Inebriator:
Drinkmotizer:
In this video, we discuss some features on the old bartender and whiteboard a new design.
We want help from the community while working on this project. If you have an idea for features to add, or an improvement on design, post a comment and we'll try to incorporate it.
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