![]() ![]() It is available in different sizes although the smaller version includes a miniRouter which can only handle up to 3 dispensers. The robotic bartender is modular, lightweight and portable. To clean you simply switch the beverage bottles with a bucket of warm soapy water and turn on the cleaning procedure. As the administrator of your Bartendro, you can access the admin webpage that allows you to customize the drink menu layout, change recipes of drinks, see reports on how many drinks of what kind were made and engage the cleaning function built into the Bartendro. The Bartendro works hard to serve one mixed drink in about 10 seconds and upwards of 200 drinks a night, so you better tip well. Drinks can be served in many sizes while remaining proportionally accurate so even the small taster delivers the full punch of any drink. The user can browse the selection of drinks from their phone or computer and their selection is then sent to the Arduino from the RPi via a router board and Ethernet cables. This interface can be accessed using any browser once you are connected to the Bartendro Wi-Fi. An RPi computer creates a designated Wi-Fi access point used to reach the Bartendro user interface. Each dispenser is controlled with a modified Arduino controller. This pump combined with the necessary electronics composes a complete dispenser and is decorated with fully programmable LEDs. A downside to the current dispensing mechanism is that it cannot handle carbonated drinks. The team claims their custom pump delivers volumes of liquid accurate to the nearest milliliter. This ensures that no liquid ever touches moving parts. The team quickly chose to use peristaltic pumps that use rollers to squeeze liquid through flexible food grade tubing (in a similar fashion to the gastrointestinal tract) as a way of delivering an accurate amount of liquid with every revolution of the motor. Instead, the duo decided to build their own and not only that, but make their hardware design and linux-based software available to anyone by making it an open source project.Īfter two years of experimentation and testing, Michael used his manufacturing experience and his own CNC machine to make the best pump for the dispensers. ![]() Fixed volume liquid dispensers, usually meant for industrial or medical applications, could cost up to $300 for just one and leaving little room for hobbyists. Michael and Kaye did countless hours of research into building a robotic mixed drink dispenser and they found that the big hurdle to jump was cost. Pierre Michael and Robert Kaye, creators of the aptly named company, Party Robotics, have come up with a robot that will mix you the perfect cocktail every time with just a tap on your smartphone or tablet. But this could be changing thanks to the Bartendro. In my opinion, there are not enough robots that use the open source platform to engage the community with the goal of improving partying. ![]()
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