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.

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.
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.

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.
