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Drink Dispenser

brianchilders

So I am looking for a way to make a standardized build of a controllable drink dispenser.

 

I've realized that I will need a peristaltic liquid pump, so my first order of business is to acquire one and attach a power supply to it.

 

I will then need to figure out how to control it with a lower voltage device (e.g. I see that the pump is 12V DC power, so I will need to solve the problem of using a 5V signal).

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  • Sir that is what relays are for! Since you don't know the glass you can use ultrasonics, to measure the fluid in the glass, this way it should not matter what glass you put there, stem, yete, beer mug, etc.

    You would use the ultrasonics or photo recognition for the top and bottom of the empty glass, then start the pump and by monitoring the ultrasonics you can tell how full the glass is... 

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  • Sir that is what relays are for! Since you don't know the glass you can use ultrasonics, to measure the fluid in the glass, this way it should not matter what glass you put there, stem, yete, beer mug, etc.

    You would use the ultrasonics or photo recognition for the top and bottom of the empty glass, then start the pump and by monitoring the ultrasonics you can tell how full the glass is... 

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