Wafflebot: Cloud Connected Artificially Intelligent Waffles
summary
Builds a waffle-making robot from Raspberry Pi boards, stepper drivers, high-torque servos (and many servos murdered), a solenoid valve and pump fed from a milk-jug gravity feed that fails, plus a Geiger counter, TensorFlow model for cook time and Kafka event plumbing that creates a Kafka backlog causing an infinite waffle loop. Packs everything in Pelican cases, spends ~200 hours and multiple destroyed waffles in transit, and ends up with one marginal waffle after ~200 hours.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:49First Rails App
- 6:45First Iteration of Wafflebot
- 12:32Solenoid Valve
- 15:40Gpio Pins
- 17:34Gpio Diagram
- 23:16Geiger Counter
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