posted on Friday, October 19, 2007 10:10 AM |

So with the new job and my unique ability to get bored with a project right when it is near complete, I've been neglecting my automated bartender system.  I had it "done" at Maker's Faire, however, the primary relay boards sucked and made me say naughty words that aren't appropriate for little children or the elderly to hear.  So I have an outlined view for version 2.

  • Replace the tubing with something less "grippy".  The current stuff is hard to adjust since it clings very nicely to other tubes.  I was thinking Polyethylene but have to verify that won't deteriorate.
  • Don't flush all the lines.  Only flush the lines on stuff that needs to be flushed.  Stuff like Orange Juice, yes, flush it.  Whiskey doesn't need to be.
  • Switch from AC to DC.
  • New relay boards (already talked about those).
  • Different wiring harness to reduce wiring complexity.
  • Fix some rendering bugs in the program that annoy only me.
  • Hopefully I can get Ian to recreate some sweet flat versions of the icons.  But this is an optional thing since I know he has better things to do.

 

The old systems.  Note the rat's nest of wiring and tubes.  Goal is for the new version to fix this.

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1 episode of House later ... 100% disassembled.  I love how it took more than 2 days to wire them up and I undo it all in 45 minutes.  Now to see how much of this I can reuse.

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Boiling up all the old connectors to get them all nice and clean.  Who knows what got into the tubes when I was moving but they were wide open.

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All the nice DC valves.  Yup, 2 different types for 2 different things for two different purposes.  The white ones are the DC version of the previous valves I had before.  I bought out the store of the polycarbonate valves so that is why I only have 7.

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