Inspiration
We love robots and we love pizza, what better way to show that than bring them together?
What it does
Geo is a robotic arm that makes pizzas by putting them in the oven and taking them out automatically.
How we built it
We used a robotic arm that Alexis had assembled, as well as a pizza oven that we own, a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino Mega. We put the webservice on the Pi and connected it to the arduino, so it automatically triggers it whenever an order happens.
Challenges we ran into
GEO is a 3 axis robot with a couple of joints, teaching him the movement of "getting the pizza to the oven" wasn't easy and there was a lot of math involved. The robotic arm had 50 wires and no documentation whatsoever, so we had to map and wire our own controllers. You can see our mapping in one of the pictures we've put up.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Being able to build wire a full arm, set up the arduinos and the decoders, soldering the wires and figuring out the math behind movement, as well as a webapp all within the hackathon time frame is great. We'll be adding more features in the future!
What's next for GEO
Extend it into other food options and automate it into a viable product that could be used commercially.
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