I funded a miniature six axis robot arm on kickstarter last summer. As it is going to arrive in a few days, my plan for the quarantine time is to make him pour out booze, which can be „ordered“ via a web frontend.

Unfortunately, the robot arm can only lift 150 grams, which is too less for a bottle, so i am currently wondering how to realize the pouring out mechanism 🤔

Link?

Also, to answer the question, teach it to set a plastic cup, attach a hose, and pour from a tap. That'll limit the activation weight.

Why does the first thing that comes to mind is Howard from The Big Bang Theory and his robot arm 🤦‍♂️

@SortOfTested: Here's the link: https://kickstarter.com/projects/...

I'll think about your idea with the hose, sounds not bad 🤔🙂

Could have a miniature pump to go along with the miniature robot arm, and have them turn it to pump fluid out of the bottle.

Also if you have a link to the KS that would be great.

Switch it to doing shots, then you'll have to work with less

@SortOfTested booze on a tap sounds like me admitting to myself that I'm an alcoholic

@M1sf3t okay but if you dont start the first step then I'm not an alcoholic

@theKarlisK but why tho

@Wisecrack: Here's the link: https://kickstarter.com/projects/...

Thanks a lot for all the ideas! 🙂

The idea i'm currently in favor of is a mixture of some of them: I plan to use a 2 cl shot dispenser (they also exist in finger push variants and can be mounted to a wall; I'm going to examine, how much pressure is needed to push it) and push it with the robot arm - so yeah, basically kind of a tap. The user can then select, if he wants the dispensed shots served as shots, or if they should be poured into a big glass (unfortunately, this won't be a great solution for beer, but liquor should be fine). I'm trying to avoid using pipes and pumps, because I'm afraid cleaning them probably won't be much fun 🙄