chieftain
modular cocktail bot
Five bottles, five pumps, one glass, and no measuring.
what it does
the front of it
- large touchscreenpick a drink, watch it get made
- nfc readertap to identify
- sound effectsit has opinions
- RGB everywherenon-negotiable
it knows what it is doing
- cup presence detectionno glass, no pour
- automated weight measurementpoured to the gram
- recipe progresswhere it is up to, live
recipes
- recipe managementbuild and edit your own
- online database syncpulls cocktails down, pushes yours up
- cost calculationpriced up from the ingredients
the hardware
- hot swappable pump modulespull one out mid-service
- 3 peristaltic + 1 membraneper module — the membrane one pushes carbonated drinks with air pressure, and a solenoid cuts the flow
- raspberry pi 4talks to the modules over usb, on pogo pins
parts
towerframe, five bays
pump modulehot swappable, 3 peristaltic + 1 membrane, 100 × 135 × 366 mm
status work in progress
The feature list is real. The prose around it is still placeholder.