This project was chosen because it combines the three favorite things of every EECS student: hardware, software, and alcohol! In addition, this project offered a good opportunity for many of the ideas taught in this class to be rolled into one given the vast amount of hardware incorporated into our design. Our goal was to create a project that would automatically mix and serve a number of preprogramed drinks, as well as allow a "manual mode" which would allow users to create custom mixes as well. To achieve this project a group of four members was formed: Ron Brockmiller, Eric Moore, John Walsh, and Charles Whiting.

Tasks were initially divided as follows:

In reality though, all members of this group worked on a wide variety of task not initially assigned to them. It was largely a group effort to produce our final implementation of the Automated Bartender as opposed to a collection of individual tasks simply placed together. The overall structure of the Automated Bartender was largely a group effort as well and not assigned to a single member.