New Project - The Barmonkey!!!

[shawnzilla]

Don't know if this has been covered in the forums yet or not, but I definitely found my next project. This will be the perfect companion to my MAME machine.

www.barmonkey.net

I think I'm gonna try for version 1.0 as my budget is limited. Has anyone else here built one of these?

[GGKoul]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,15385.0.html

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,21282.0.html

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,19650.0.html

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,4869.0.html

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,4328.0.html

[Shape D.]

using one of those is like "cooking" in a microwave.

food and booze need a more human touch when being made.

wheres the love.

besides everyone knows you start your wifes drinks off weak and gradually increase the alcohoul content of the drinks as she goes. can this machine account for this?

[SirPeale]

Lots of people posting about the bar monkey.  I want to see someone here actually build one.  I'd do it, but I'm a broke, cheap bast that doesn't drink.

[missioncontrol]

I'd rather mix my own drinks........

[walls83]

I'd rather mix my own drinks........

YEP me too..!!  I dont think the bar monkey could make everybodies drinks the way they like them.  But its a cool little gizmo.

[shawnzilla]

  I may try to build one. The only thing stopping me is the winshield wiper pumps vs. food grade pumps. Not sure I want to be drinking something that came out of a non food-grade pump...BUT, $3.75 for a winshield wiper pump and $50 for a food grade...hmmm....

[shmokes]

Is sofware available to control all the pumps and database all the drink recipes?  Obviously these people wrote software and a touch-screen front-end thing, but I haven't seen where it can be downloaded.  I'd love to build one of these things for parties, even though I would still, for the most part, mix my own drinks.  But I don't have any programming skills.

[SirPeale]

shmokes -

Look under 'downloads' on the left hand side.

[Zakk]

I'd do it, but I'm a broke, cheap bast that doesn't drink.

And your wife still calls you 'yum!'   


(heh sorry bro) 

[sodapopinski]

The only preperation I need for drinks is opening the bottle or can.

[DrewKaree]

besides everyone knows you start your wifes drinks off weak and gradually increase the alcohoul content of the drinks as she goes. can this machine account for this?

You can program drinks in manually if you so wish, and add them to the database.  In essence, you create a new, more potent drink of the same name. 

I have a cousin who we remodeled his basement, and we plumbed it so it can be done, and I've got him the old computer.  I haven't figured out if it's JUST a touchscreen, or if you can enter it in on keyboards or, like in the jukebox thread, there's a seperat-able touchbar that may be doable.  ALL of his money was sunk into the remodel, and he's working on building up the bottle collection.  After that, we're off to buy the pumps and software. 

I have little to no faith that this will happen anytime before late 2006, because he's an apathetic procrastinator.  If I hadn't bought parts without him knowing that's what we were gonna do, he wouldn't be as far as he is now

Food-grade can mean a lot of things, and with a pump, what it more than likely means is that any moving parts have either no chance of fouling the product it's pumping, or it could be magnetically operating, which is fairly standard in something like fish tank pumps, but I'm struggling to find those small enough to work for this application.  An air pump may work, but I haven't had a reason to flesh this out more