This will be a portable and an interactive food scale. A smart internet connected food scale that talks to your mobile phone. Ideal for home kitchen use. Sensitive enough to weigh herbs and spices. It will also have a wide range, so you can weigh heavy things like flour and rice. It will enable people to weigh ingredients and snacks and then determine the exact amount of fat, proteins, carbohydrates and calories in the ingredients they’re using in recipes or the snacks they’re eating at home.
The device will act as a scale, displaying the weight of any objects placed on it on the display. Weight can be measured in grams, ounces or pounds. Recipes will be stored in the SD card and displayed on the touch display. Step by step instructions will be provided for cooking a recipe.
Gesture sensor will be added for browsing the recipes hands-free. So, you can browse the recipe hands-free while baking, cooking, and cutting.
It will help anyone make beautiful and delicious food, regardless of experience. The device will also act as a cooking timer (e.g. for baking purposes) so you won't burn your food again!
The platform would be a great tool for diabetics who need to control their sugar intake and athletes/pregnant women who need to ensure that they're getting the right balance of nutrition.
Goals for this project:
- Kitchen scales that have a recipe on screen, it monitors your quantities and guides you through the cooking process.
- A more automated way to track calories/nutrition.
- Interactive cook book.
- A cooking/baking timer too.
- Recipe re-scaling if some of the ingredient is not enough.
Components to be used:-
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B {Brain of the Device which will control and monitor everything}
- 32GB Raspberry Pi NOOBS Operating System Micro-SD Card {Memory of the Device where the recipes and the code will be stored}
- 2.4" Touch Screen Hat {For displaying the recipes and other details}
- Load Cell 5Kg {Sensor using which we will be able to weigh something}
- APDS-9960APDS-9960Sensor{For touch-less gesture sensing
- HX711 module {A precision 24-bit analog to digital converter (ADC)}
