We have our new bespoke frame! it’s taken us a while to source it, professional fabricators wanted exorbitant fees to make what we thought would be quite simple. Fortunately we were able to persuade a friend to make it for us. We are happy to say he has done a brilliant job.
Progress on the project should start to accelerate now, and we hope to bring lots of new photos and videos of progress in the new year.
V2 Frame
Last weekend we had a small gathering to put the new console/control system through its paces. The new console is vastly different to the original, in that it runs on a .NETMF board, which sends commands to the Arduino Mega which handles the low level mechanics. It is a much more complicated set up but allows programming in c# which I find much easier to do complicated stuff with than C++ (such as XML processing).
It works!
I am very pleased to be able to say it worked flawlessly and a complete success. A total of 60 cocktails served, once again Identity Crisis was by far the most popular. Here’s a video in action:
This is the new console. The original console was always meant to be temporary, it’s just taken us a while to get round to make something more in keeping with the look of The Inebriator.
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The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that for the summer BBQ earlier this year we swapped Tequila for Amaretto. Essentially, the Tequila cocktails didn’t prove very popular on the first outing.
We also removed Grenadine from the mixers as it was a little too viscous for the valves to work properly.
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Are you releasing a parts list? No
Are you releasing the schematics / plans? No
Are you releasing the source code? No
Are you producing a how to guide? No
Where can I buy one from? You can’t
A bit of good news though, we are currently working on version two which should be much more polished and we are looking into our options for commercialisation. The Inebriator is our first prototype, which we just made for the fun of the challenge and all the recent interest has taken us by surprise.
Following a post on Reddit, which subsequently led to a post on Hack A Day and other sites, we’ve had quite a bit of interest in our little project over the past couple of days. Comments have been very positive, so thanks guys, we really appreciate the feedback.
One recurring theme has been the lack of an Ice Hopper and Stirring mechanism, so thought I would make a post about them. Frankly we would love to add both of these features, and they have been considered many times, but so far we have not found a suitable solution.
116 cocktails served! Overall a very successful outing for The Inebriator.
Though the milk did jam requiring some last minute tweaks.
Last minute adjustments.
Perhaps not the most exciting development, but we have a new cool box! Woohoo! The original cool box was far too small and once filled with plumbed bottles there wasn’t enough room to close it which somewhat limited its effectiveness.
New Cool Box
Purchased from Costco this Igloo 63 litre cool box should have ample room for 10+ bottles. To keep things simple we have decided to only use 2 litre bottles, the picture below shows 9 bottles plumbed in.
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A Video of The Inebriator in action!