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The winter project THE FINAL FILM (all look on endpage)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 17:02
by nxt1engineer
The winter project is a beer serving machine
We are building a machine that opens a bottle of beer (two brands) , cool it at a right temperture and serve it to you.



Re: The winter project

Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 17:37
by mightor
Really cool concept, it's too bad you had to use Heineken. Will it work with real beer like Grolsch? :)

- Xander

Re: The winter project

Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 20:37
by nxt1engineer
Its going to work with 2 types of beer Heineken and Grolsch, you have make a choice and the right beer is cooled and opened.
For cooling we going to use a Peltier element on a aluminium block and a lego temp sensor, you have to adjust the temperature, 5 -15 degrees
The biggest advent is unscrewing the bottle. its very tight.
We will see,
The date 2112 is wrong, i hope to do this faster.

Re: The winter project

Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 23:32
by aswin0
Cool,

I didn't know About Peltier elements before. That's why NXT is so much fun.

Re: The winter project

Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 23:44
by h-g-t
Best way to open the top might be to use a rubber bottle opener like this to get a good grip - http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/m/m9GDdgd ... qg/140.jpg.

Or adapt it to open cans, which might be easier!

Re: The winter project

Posted: 01 Nov 2011, 21:20
by nxt1engineer
The first part



Re: The winter project

Posted: 14 Nov 2011, 20:46
by nxt1engineer
The second part


Re: The winter project

Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 07:02
by mightor
I like this development journal you are keeping. I like the fact that you're now using Grolsch instead of Heineken even more!

Great job :)

- Xander

Re: The winter project

Posted: 18 Dec 2011, 09:04
by nxt1engineer
Ok the 3 part is ready
The conveyorbelt and the bottle racks.
see the movie



Re: The winter project

Posted: 18 Dec 2011, 10:59
by mightor
Very cool stuff! Keep us posted of your progress, this is great :)

- Xander