Drink like a Crazed Engineer

[Richter]

http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Engineers-Guide-to-Drinks11.pdf

[Elder Iptuous]

available in .dwg?

[Richter]

 

Now I'm tempted to learn Arduino to build a drink printer and application that would accept .dwg input like this!

[cavehamster]

available in .dwg?

Yeah, if you find it in a .dwg I can turn it into a 48" wide plot on the big printer... hehe.

[Jenne]

http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Engineers-Guide-to-Drinks11.pdf

Fuck yeah, that's awesome.

[Requia ☣]

Now I'm tempted to learn Arduino to build a drink printer and application that would accept .dwg input like this!

That sounds like the most awesome idea ever.  I'd offer to buy one if you pulled it off but I'm at that 'choose between eating and paying the rent' part of my life.

[cavehamster]

Now I'm tempted to learn Arduino to build a drink printer and application that would accept .dwg input like this!

Ya know, it shouldn't be that difficult, you could do it like those automatic color matchers for the paint at the hardware store.  Bunch of tanks of various alcohol, and then just dispense them in the right volumes for whatever drink you punch in.

[Elder Iptuous]

you'd still have to have motion control for the proper mixing or shaking.
plus it would have to have a little pick and place arm for cherries, lemon wedges, etc.
i think you would have to design a brand new end effector in order to open up the little umbrellas... i imagine that is unexplored territory, here to fore....

[cavehamster]

you'd still have to have motion control for the proper mixing or shaking.
plus it would have to have a little pick and place arm for cherries, lemon wedges, etc.
i think you would have to design a brand new end effector in order to open up the little umbrellas... i imagine that is unexplored territory, here to fore....

I'd leave the 'options' up to the human at the end.

Otherwise, you'd just need to dispense the ingredients into a container, seal and send through a mix cycle, and then dispense the container into a glass.

[bob-o]

that is so fucking awesome. i am saving it!

[Iason Ouabache]

You can find color coded poster versions of something like this in any college bookstore. It's still cool as fuck though.

[Rumckle]

you'd still have to have motion control for the proper mixing or shaking.
plus it would have to have a little pick and place arm for cherries, lemon wedges, etc.
i think you would have to design a brand new end effector in order to open up the little umbrellas... i imagine that is unexplored territory, here to fore....

I'd leave the 'options' up to the human at the end.

Otherwise, you'd just need to dispense the ingredients into a container, seal and send through a mix cycle, and then dispense the container into a glass.

The biggest obstacle I see, is things such as muddling and layering.

[Richter]

Good thinking, everything else is jsut adding another movement, but a layering action would take some FINE gauging of the physics involved, and likely awareness of humidity, temperature, and atmospheric pressure.

Mixed drinks a machien could do, layered I think is out of luck without a serious R+D budget

[East Coast Hustle]

many high-volume bars (especially in cheapo drinking destinations like Cancun, Vegas, and St. Thomas)  have machines where the house specialties and popular mixed drinks are programmed in, there's a touchscreen POS system, and the machine dispenses the ordered drink in precisely measured amounts.

Some of them even have a separate bank of dispenser taps for the frozen drinks, held premixed in giant rotating frozen drums.

Bartenders in alot of these places are hired for looks and personality, mixology skills are probably a tertiary consideration at best.

[Rumckle]

Some of them even have a separate bank of dispenser taps for the frozen drinks, held premixed in giant rotating frozen drums.

I have seen these before, makes sense for nightclubs, when people want slushee like drinks