Taco Maker

Inspiration

Many restaurants rely on chefs not only to cook but to serve food. At the UC, El Gallo cooks food yet the process needing most man-power can arguably be serving said food. Using a robot to serve food would allow cooks to spend more time cooking and less time serving.

What it does

The Taco Maker uses a 5 axis system with a CAD designed grabber to grab ingredients and disperse them onto a shell/tortilla.

How we built it

The Taco Maker was built using common robotics motor, carbon fiber to reduce weight, and an arduino. We utilized a 3d printer and a laser cutter to design the intricate grabber.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into several issues during the creation of our hack. A lot of the hardware and software we wanted to use wasn't readily available.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In this hack, we had to practically build everything from ground up.

What we learned

We learned that we should have come prepared with the hardware we need before the hack so we could spend more time working on the software.

What's next for Taco Maker

We'd like to implement computer vision, PID control algorithms, and inverse kinematics so that the end effector knows its position in 3D space. Because the taco maker has so many degrees of freedom it could be utilized to automate many tasks in fields as broad as manufacturing, farming, and other basic tasks.

Built With

• arduino