IoB

Idea / Motivation

seen an article on Make of a beer fridge enhanced with a wii balance board and a raspberry pi and thought this could be a great thing to safeguard our beer and Mate supply. Since tecer already did a project with a hacked Bathroom scale, we can profit from his experince.

Concept

Beer Fridge

Hardware

• Arduino
• WiFi Module ESP8266
• Load Cells (from bathroom scale)
• Door sensor (Reed contact, hall sensor or simple switch)
• DC Power Supply

Function

Processes the raw measurements of the load cell and takes care of calibration. Serves measurement values and state of the door sensor over WiFi.

HMI

Hardware

• either SoC with WiFi, LCD, touchscreen or switches
• or old Andorid Tablet

Backend

Services

• Database
• Webinterface