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High Level Design:
Our project can be decomposed
into 2 main parts as follows.
- The initial part of the Automated
Bartender is the transportation of the glass from
the user to the actual dispenser which will make
the drinks and then back to the user once the drink
is complete. A conveyor belt provides the physical
transportation of the glass. There are sensors equipped
alongside the conveyor belt at each end serving
as control measures by providing the cups location
relative to the belt so it knows when to turn on
and off.
- The final part of the Automated
Bartender is the dispenser. We choose to modify
a cocktail carousal so it included a motor at the
base to turn it and to include solenoids for dispensing
the liquid. The control methods used for this part
of the Automated Bartender included both the keypad
and the NES controller. They allowed users to make
drink selections or control the dispensing end of
our project manually. There was also a graphical
interface incorporated to show the current drink
or mode chosen by inputs to these control devices.
Here is an image showing the overview
of our project. Control devices are shown on the left
(sensors and keypad/NES controller).
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