Heating Things Up
We began with an idea: an assembly line coffee maker. We had no clue what that would mean or look like, but we had a dream. Having an idea of where we wanted to end up we looked at what it takes to make coffee: hot water, coffee beans, a filter, and a cup. Knowing what needs to happen in order to make a cup of coffee, we decided to begin by working on a temperature controlled water heating system to heat the water to a toasty 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pan-Tilt PouringIn order to simulate the spiral pouring motion used in pour-over brewing, we created a pan-tilt to distribute the water evenly across the grinds. Two servos power the mechanism to provide the two ranges of motion and trigonometric functions varying with time create the spiral motion.
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