Teabot v1 specification
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must haves
- Hot water dispense
- Flashy lights
- Milk dispense
- Theatre
- Tea bag dispense
- Sugar dispense
- Data collection (feedback + orering info)
- Big manual ordering buttons
- Guarding from hot water
- All dials/options must go to 11
- Inefficient and entertaining
- Easy to transport
- Easy to set up
- Mains powered
- Compatible with at least one cup design
- One cup at a time
- Dispense order options
- Timing options
- Dedicated cup position
- Fits on one standard desk
- Scaleable
- Modular
- Very simple 'minimum viable product'
- Hitchin hackerspace branded
- Preset tea orders
nice to haves
- Sponsorship
- Sound effects
- Battery powered
- One person operation
- Can serve multiple cups at once
- Mashing
- Stirring
- Squeezing
- Stirring direction
- Milk type
- Milk quantity
- Whipped cream
- Cocoa dusting
- Tea type
- Water temperature
- Lemon
- Honey
- Irish
- Built in filming/webcam/timelapse
- Web ordering
- Web notification
- Cup naming
- Compatible with common cup/mug designs
- Safety sensor
- Ordering over telnet
- Ordering over twitter
- Voice recognition
- Touchscreen
- Live graphing
- Pantone programming
- Loose leaf tea
- Reliable
- Total flexibiity on cup/mug positioning
- QR code programming
- Punch card programming
- catapult for tea bag disposal
- catapult for sugar cube dispense