DAmmit. You just gave me an idea for the most unnecessary spice rack ever made. Regular spice rack, with a big touch screen on the side, you say what you are making and it just gives you the spices you should use. I have other stuff to do dammit!
Bread machines often have pots with a mount point and indents on the side as well as an axle dead center to help with stirring. It's a place to start if you are looking for something to rotate on an axis.
Also you could do pot rotation pretty easily with a tall pot at an angle on 4 bearings (2 front 2 back) with a silicon driven roller and then just place an induction coil close to the side of the pot (since the side will now be your cooking surface. Any metal pot will work, it just won't have fins to help mixing like the industrial robots do. (the conveyer belt might also fit really well here as a silicon belt would be food grade and high heat, and can be motorised to angle into the slanted pot for dispensing then move out again for clearance.
An angled pot does make it more complicated for ingredient dispensing. We have maximum space around a regular pot parallel to the ground. A conveyor belt that needs to move in and out is complex.
Perhaps spice infused oils is an alternate to dry spice. Heat oil. Piles of spice. Cook/fry. Filter if required. If you don't they may settle and cake up. You can mix common spices into one oil. Works with herbs too. Lasts quite a while in the fridge.
@@fun-gineering The downside being it doesn't solve your original problem with complex over-engineering. And, let's be honest, that's the whole point of the project in the first place!
Well, it’s mostly the whole point. The other part of this project is making a delicious dinner so I don’t have to 🤣 Genuinely interested in this idea though. Does it work for any spice?
@@fun-gineering I recommend using either computer vision or a combination of a thermostat and humidistat to monitor the food and prevent burning. To enhance control, you could implement a state machine with a feedback loop that dynamically adjusts settings based on the monitored conditions. Additionally, you could integrate QR codes to track the ingredients loaded into the machine, enabling support for different recipes. Using gravity feeding for your fluids could also help regulate the volume per second effectively. Let me know if you'd like assistance with any of these ideas. I'm excited to see how this project progresses and will be subscribing to follow along!
Awesome ideas. For now I’m just going to manually tweak recipes with precise measurements, but phase 2 would definitely require a state machine with sensing!
I know how frustrating and rewarding these projects can be, and there's no shame in thinking of redesigns for certain elements. I imagine it will be very difficult to get the precise amounts of spices needed out of this setup, but I know you will figure it out. This is absolutely top tier content. I was blown away when I seen your subs/views and I'm happy to be an early subscriber because you are going places. Keep up the good work and don't stop making videos!
@@fun-gineering why not a two-stage system? Where there's a spice 'man-trap' double door: that way the agitator would only need to move the spice to refill that cavity when the door is closed and makes the delivery a set/measurable quantity
18:15 the spice slide would definitely benefit from some sort of sweeper/scraper, or having a transparent top lid and a fan to help the spices down. Whichever is easier or more practical (or maybe have an extender that extends the selected spice (or collected spice in a small spoon) and flips it directly over the pot. But you'd also have to account for the moisture from the steam in the pan making the spice stick to it's container. It might be best to emulate the action of adding spice with a spoon, and having a spoon cleaner/scraper to mitigate the issue with moisture. Just rambling out loud on here lol. Last idea, think syringe. Have multi channel spice tubes (or separate tubes to avoid cross contamination) that contains the spice, aligned horizontally, that pushes the spice out into a measuring cup on a scale. probably easier to control the spice flow and not rely on gravity, and you can have an arm deliver the spice to the pan after measuring - keeping the spices away from the moisture.
I work in an industrial bakery and the way the spices are measured there is that we have them in a container which has screws in them and the screws push the spices in to a scale to measure amounts accurately. Clogging wont be an issue there. And with a little testing the scale might even become unnecessary.
@Ruinangerox oh that's cool! I'd imagine that you could calculate how much spice is needed just by the volume of the container and the length of the pushing mechanism, you're totally right about not needing a scale.
to avoid the spices spilling everywhere you can add a “tray” below every slot except where the ramp is - this would be a stationary part that just sits underneath the moving elements
My friend, the number of issues I saw resulting from 3D filament print lines in the same direction as the force being applied to the object... You've got to re-orient those prints so that the "grain" of the print is perpendicular to the force being applied.
Yes you’re right, but I’m printing them in this orientation so that certain features print correctly and I don’t have to use support material. Most of the time I print properly with the grain.
An alternate idea for the spice dispenser would be to get non pre-ground versions of everything and then hack a finamill pod to either control its motor or create your own pod holder with a motor. The finamill spice pods have plastic pieces inside that move to help it consistently dispense so time-based dispensing tends to be pretty reliable for getting a specific dose.
@@fun-gineering Only as far as brainstorming a bunch! I originally bought one for the purpose of hacking / automating it but ended up not needing to do the project, but I still use it for cooking and find it really handy and I think it would work well. I also used to work for a powder bed 3D printing company so I've gotten a lot of second hand exposure to my coworker's frustrations with powder dosing, even without clumping - using rollers with angle of repose which differs for each kind of powder and the many struggles of using augurs to move powder reliably. Now that I've seen this video I'm tempted to make an automated spice dispenser with programmable recipes because measuring out spices is one of my least favorite parts of cooking.
@@fun-gineering Also a couple ideas for automating the pods - you could mod the handle to remove the click to lock mechanism so the existing motorized handle can just be raised and lowered onto a rotating carousel of pods, or you could print a gear that fits into the tabbed top of the pod to connect it to gears so that there's no raising or lowering necessary - just rotate the carousel and turn on the motor that's geared to the correct pod. It seems fairly automation friendly since the pod's base just needs to be held still with locking tabs and the top needs to be rotated to work. And both have tabs - on the sides of the base and center of the top making it easy to print parts that interface with it.
Milligram scale solids handling is huge problem. It is common challenge in the pharma industry. It would be way better to freshly dissolve the spices and dispense them as liquid solutions. Or make standard aliquots.
Interesting. To dissolve them would be a huge win for dispensing, but I’m concerned about spoilage (therefore requiring airtight storage), ability to dissolve, cross contamination of liquid lines, etc
I think for the spice an archimedes screw into the bottles and a conveyer belt might be a better solution. It could be 1 screw and then keep the rotating storage (but then a bit of cross contamination) or with the conveyer belt it could be stationary but then 1 screw/motor per spice...
just starting the video, but i'll post this before i forget, there are a few rotating pot things for not completely unreasonable prices. they're listed as an "automatic stir frying machine" generally, i think i saw one on a cooking channel recently.
The little dispenser lids on spice bottles, (the plastic thing with holes that most people throw away) if twisted like a pepper mill, will dispense spices very nicely if you were to 3d print a facsimile with gear teeth around the edges a simple mechanism could be devised that would dispince multiple bottles at once or one at a time.
in the spice dispenser little slidey thing maybe you can print in a little finger(s) that goes into the bottle, since it doesn't slide that far (as to break off...) that will kind of agitate the spice as it slides forward breaking apart clumps.
Awesome simple idea. Considering to implement it, but from what I’ve seen the spice is so stubborn that it could just create an interior column around the finger and still not flow.
Someone DIY'ing a cooking robot! Love it. Turns out that we're both from AU (WA here), if you're down for a brown bag meeting occasionally, def hit me up. This robot is a good side project for a lazy cooker like myself :P
You have the cart before the horse. You need to have the robot empty the sink of dishes and load and unload the dishwasher, then have it cook dinner and do the clean up after.
I’ve been thinking about it! If a few other people express interest I might put in the effort into making a GitHub for it. Only makes sense if people want to actively contribute though.
The obvious solution for the spices is to have an eccentric lobe on a standard motor that opens and closes the spice dispense that essentially whacks the shutter many times (based on how long you run the motor) two that the vibration and the dispense are incorporated into the same mechanism. Less motors, predictable dispense amounts (based on time).
The next obvious thing is to have the pan rotate and the spoon be in a fixed position…. Or at most move from the center to the edge while the pot rotates beneath it.. Two idler wheels inside the top rim and one drive wheel on the outside of the rim should take care of that.. Cool project thought.
Interesting. I hadn’t considered having the spoon fixed from the outside with a rotating pot. Will ponder this. Does potentially make inserting ingredients easier for a human but harder for a robot.
Next time, add a set of cylinders above filled with ingredients - that open into a shared dry or wet funnel into the cooking pot. No flipping nonsense.
Just got to the point of the spice rack -- something like this but larger and above the cooking surface - except the upside down containers open into funnels - and the whole circle of cylinders spins, to control if something drops into the right side (dry) or left side (wet). (think dry beans vs. fresh cut onions)
Pretty good idea. They’d have to be food safe cylinders, so stainless steel ideally. Would be a bit challenging to make the funnel / slide combo easy to clean.
@@fun-gineering goods would be loaded from plastic bags, locked in with a twist-lock ring at the bottom (they'd have to be removed, put in with the mechanical lid placed on, then flipped upside down so the mechanically controlled lid is on bottom. Wet goods (i.e. chopped onions) may need something to get them out. Not Sure. You'd use a different "lid" for liquids vs. solids. It quickly becomes more complex but looking at the commercial versions, this is how it's typically done.
1:40 kitchenaid made a tilting stand mixer head attachment that was a spinning bowl, doesn't appear to be sold in Australia, but I wonder if it could be a good basis for a ghetto turning cooking bowl gadget
Now that I think about it... just get a second hand industrial kitchen mixer that had a floating bowl, so you can stick a heating element of some kind under it...
Yes, but.. you do need a nice flat base for induction to work. But I do like the mixing element. Might have been easier to use that than make a custom robot arm 🤣
You should make different sized insert-able/swap-able plates that would be inserted where the spice goes so you can hone in how much gets dispensed every time.
Neat idea - alternatively, could make custom dispensing routines - e.g. salt only gets one nudge of x milliseconds, paprika gets two nudges of y milliseconds
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@@fun-gineering I think you need a measuring cup. Otherwise other factors will play a role, like how much spice is left in the jar. If it isn't sealing the spices properly, it may also depend on the air humidity on the day.
Love the concept! But I do wonder if you might not have had decent luck figuring out how to make your own drum-based rolling machine rather than that robot arm, but you got that part working!
Here in China, there is a brand named TINCO, which made a cooking robot years ago. And most of us didn't buy it. I don't konw if I can post the link here.
From the research I did, there are actually many cooking robots in China. I’m not surprised they didn’t sell, either because of unreliability or inflexibility.
@@fun-gineering The real factor that affects our purchases is that these robots cannot truly save time, especially with complex Chinese dishes. You still need to stand beside the robot to deliver materials. It's different from their commercials.
Feels overengineered. Did you tried the coffee dispensing mechanism in coffee vending machine. Also the same mechanism can be used for chopped vegetables instead of flipping containers.
Honestly, IMO the cooking part is easy. Prep is the annoying/time consuming part, Also there's so much variance in ingredients, when a recipe says "cook to taste", some times it means to your personal tastes, but often it is because there is no way to judge seasonings without tasting it and adjusting during the cook. Without some way of completely normalising ingredients (basically impossible task) or some way of getting taste feedback analogous to a human tongue, I don't see cooking robots ever being a serious endeavor
I think you underestimate my dislike of cooking 🤣 Fair point about getting a recipe right though. I think it’s possible with standardised measurements and a perfected recipe program. That’s how industrial cooking robots do it.
@@fun-gineering Oh yeah, I'm not saying you can't create a cooking robot that will produce acceptable food, I just doubt that these cooking robots can produce something great without that feedback was more my point. I'll always have a place for cooking, because I love making food as good as I possibly can. If something else could do that for me, I'd implement it it a heartbeat - I already don't feel like cooking every day - I just don't think the tech is anywhere near close I'm mostly thinking out loud and talking in hypotheticals
The weird thing for me is.. I think the tech is totally there. The issue is the systems implementation. Yes it’s complicated, yes it’s really hard. But it’s not impossible.
@@fun-gineering Nah I don't think you get my point, if you get good enough at cooking you realise its more art than it is regimented step following. Like i say, without taste feedback, theres no way the robot can cook to a similar standard as someone who actually knows how to cook by taste A robot can maybe get like, 80% of the way there without that for sure though
Mmhhh, for your automatic rotating pot, there are several similar rotating pots available, simply called automatic cooking machine, starting at 350 dollar. Is that what you wanted?
Yeah, but I was after just the pot part, not the whole unit. I suppose you could start with a unit like that and then build the rest of the robot around it, but then it feels a bit like cheating.
@@fun-gineering You could get the cheapest model, that does, what you want your pot to do, and then take it apart, to get some... inspiration ;) or maybe you can find a repair video or showcase of the used mechanics. For your spices, you could look up, how powder dispensers from laboratories/pharma work. I could only find one electric spice dispenser, but medical and lab equipment should deal more often with powders and exact dosages.
For a next generation of your experiment, I wonder if you might be able to make your originally intended rotating self-heating pot using a steel bowl, the base from an induction wok, and I guess you could rotate it using a rim drive that also holds it at an angle. th-cam.com/video/CzJKxUCKOBg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VCfKBjOo3NPeMTy3&t=449
the water vapour from the pot is propably condensing in the spices and clogging up that whole system, its the same reason you are not supposed to use those little spice things over boiling things
Yes, I was worried about this. The steam doesn’t actively intercept the spices though. And the issue I have with dispensing still exist after drying them out in a dehydrator. If this turns out to be an issue, we could just use a fan to blow the steam the other way.
DAmmit. You just gave me an idea for the most unnecessary spice rack ever made. Regular spice rack, with a big touch screen on the side, you say what you are making and it just gives you the spices you should use. I have other stuff to do dammit!
You should make that!
those automatic rotating pill dispensers might be a good starting point to go from :P
my favorite part is that the spice dispenser appears to sneeze every time it's used.
Maybe this needs to be accentuated
@@fun-gineering I'd love to see it, do you know anyone willing to donate a scan of their nose for science?
Nosebody that I nose of
Bread machines often have pots with a mount point and indents on the side as well as an axle dead center to help with stirring. It's a place to start if you are looking for something to rotate on an axis.
Now that’s thinking outside the breadbox
Also you could do pot rotation pretty easily with a tall pot at an angle on 4 bearings (2 front 2 back) with a silicon driven roller and then just place an induction coil close to the side of the pot (since the side will now be your cooking surface. Any metal pot will work, it just won't have fins to help mixing like the industrial robots do. (the conveyer belt might also fit really well here as a silicon belt would be food grade and high heat, and can be motorised to angle into the slanted pot for dispensing then move out again for clearance.
An angled pot does make it more complicated for ingredient dispensing. We have maximum space around a regular pot parallel to the ground. A conveyor belt that needs to move in and out is complex.
Perhaps spice infused oils is an alternate to dry spice. Heat oil. Piles of spice. Cook/fry. Filter if required. If you don't they may settle and cake up. You can mix common spices into one oil. Works with herbs too. Lasts quite a while in the fridge.
Woah - now that’s a cool idea.
@@fun-gineering The downside being it doesn't solve your original problem with complex over-engineering. And, let's be honest, that's the whole point of the project in the first place!
Well, it’s mostly the whole point. The other part of this project is making a delicious dinner so I don’t have to 🤣
Genuinely interested in this idea though. Does it work for any spice?
So cool! I love how you showed the fails and then how you solved them; classic iterative engineering. Please put a kill switch on that thing! :D
Definitely need a kill switch 😅
@@fun-gineering Once you add a chopping/stabbing feature, maybe call it "Emergency Stop".
This is a triumph. I cannot wait to see more from your channel.
The true triumph will be eating a succulent chinese meal from this thing
@@fun-gineering
I recommend using either computer vision or a combination of a thermostat and humidistat to monitor the food and prevent burning.
To enhance control, you could implement a state machine with a feedback loop that dynamically adjusts settings based on the monitored conditions.
Additionally, you could integrate QR codes to track the ingredients loaded into the machine, enabling support for different recipes.
Using gravity feeding for your fluids could also help regulate the volume per second effectively.
Let me know if you'd like assistance with any of these ideas. I'm excited to see how this project progresses and will be subscribing to follow along!
Awesome ideas. For now I’m just going to manually tweak recipes with precise measurements, but phase 2 would definitely require a state machine with sensing!
I know how frustrating and rewarding these projects can be, and there's no shame in thinking of redesigns for certain elements. I imagine it will be very difficult to get the precise amounts of spices needed out of this setup, but I know you will figure it out.
This is absolutely top tier content. I was blown away when I seen your subs/views and I'm happy to be an early subscriber because you are going places. Keep up the good work and don't stop making videos!
Thanks man! That means a lot. Whether or not we get there with the spice dispensing, we’ll have to wait and see.
@@fun-gineering why not a two-stage system? Where there's a spice 'man-trap' double door: that way the agitator would only need to move the spice to refill that cavity when the door is closed and makes the delivery a set/measurable quantity
Also, nice video: looking forward to seeing part 2!
18:15 the spice slide would definitely benefit from some sort of sweeper/scraper, or having a transparent top lid and a fan to help the spices down. Whichever is easier or more practical (or maybe have an extender that extends the selected spice (or collected spice in a small spoon) and flips it directly over the pot. But you'd also have to account for the moisture from the steam in the pan making the spice stick to it's container. It might be best to emulate the action of adding spice with a spoon, and having a spoon cleaner/scraper to mitigate the issue with moisture.
Just rambling out loud on here lol.
Last idea, think syringe. Have multi channel spice tubes (or separate tubes to avoid cross contamination) that contains the spice, aligned horizontally, that pushes the spice out into a measuring cup on a scale. probably easier to control the spice flow and not rely on gravity, and you can have an arm deliver the spice to the pan after measuring - keeping the spices away from the moisture.
I work in an industrial bakery and the way the spices are measured there is that we have them in a container which has screws in them and the screws push the spices in to a scale to measure amounts accurately. Clogging wont be an issue there. And with a little testing the scale might even become unnecessary.
@Ruinangerox oh that's cool! I'd imagine that you could calculate how much spice is needed just by the volume of the container and the length of the pushing mechanism, you're totally right about not needing a scale.
Are we talking a helical screw parallel to the ground?
The spice must flow!
He who controls the spice.. eats tonight.
You should have WAYYYY more subs. underrated content
Thank you sir.
to avoid the spices spilling everywhere you can add a “tray” below every slot except where the ramp is - this would be a stationary part that just sits underneath the moving elements
Great idea, will actually add this
My friend, the number of issues I saw resulting from 3D filament print lines in the same direction as the force being applied to the object... You've got to re-orient those prints so that the "grain" of the print is perpendicular to the force being applied.
Yes you’re right, but I’m printing them in this orientation so that certain features print correctly and I don’t have to use support material. Most of the time I print properly with the grain.
An alternate idea for the spice dispenser would be to get non pre-ground versions of everything and then hack a finamill pod to either control its motor or create your own pod holder with a motor. The finamill spice pods have plastic pieces inside that move to help it consistently dispense so time-based dispensing tends to be pretty reliable for getting a specific dose.
You sound like you have experience with these! If they work as you say, that’s an awesome idea.
@@fun-gineering Only as far as brainstorming a bunch! I originally bought one for the purpose of hacking / automating it but ended up not needing to do the project, but I still use it for cooking and find it really handy and I think it would work well. I also used to work for a powder bed 3D printing company so I've gotten a lot of second hand exposure to my coworker's frustrations with powder dosing, even without clumping - using rollers with angle of repose which differs for each kind of powder and the many struggles of using augurs to move powder reliably. Now that I've seen this video I'm tempted to make an automated spice dispenser with programmable recipes because measuring out spices is one of my least favorite parts of cooking.
@@fun-gineering Also a couple ideas for automating the pods - you could mod the handle to remove the click to lock mechanism so the existing motorized handle can just be raised and lowered onto a rotating carousel of pods, or you could print a gear that fits into the tabbed top of the pod to connect it to gears so that there's no raising or lowering necessary - just rotate the carousel and turn on the motor that's geared to the correct pod. It seems fairly automation friendly since the pod's base just needs to be held still with locking tabs and the top needs to be rotated to work. And both have tabs - on the sides of the base and center of the top making it easy to print parts that interface with it.
You really think the pod is that good? If so I’ll have to pick one up..
Milligram scale solids handling is huge problem. It is common challenge in the pharma industry.
It would be way better to freshly dissolve the spices and dispense them as liquid solutions. Or make standard aliquots.
Interesting. To dissolve them would be a huge win for dispensing, but I’m concerned about spoilage (therefore requiring airtight storage), ability to dissolve, cross contamination of liquid lines, etc
This is awesome man. Loved watching the process from start to finish!
Thanks matey
How do you only have 235 subs!! I wish so much you get a bucket load of new subs..
🙏🏻
I think for the spice an archimedes screw into the bottles and a conveyer belt might be a better solution. It could be 1 screw and then keep the rotating storage (but then a bit of cross contamination) or with the conveyer belt it could be stationary but then 1 screw/motor per spice...
Yes, I’m currently working on a concept for a screw design with a micro dc motor for each spice
just starting the video, but i'll post this before i forget, there are a few rotating pot things for not completely unreasonable prices. they're listed as an "automatic stir frying machine" generally, i think i saw one on a cooking channel recently.
nice, finished now. super cool project!
If you can find the actual pot part as an off-the-shelf item, let me know!
Looking forward to seeing more of this!!!!
I'll be watching your channel with great interest.
Genuinely great work and great engineering
Thank you!
Awesome video dude. 👨🏻🍳
🧑🏻🍳🤖
The little dispenser lids on spice bottles, (the plastic thing with holes that most people throw away) if twisted like a pepper mill, will dispense spices very nicely if you were to 3d print a facsimile with gear teeth around the edges a simple mechanism could be devised that would dispince multiple bottles at once or one at a time.
For the ones that came up a tiny batton that can tap the bottle would allow easy dispinsing.
*cake up
A batton could also be moved by the same gears that move the spice lids and the rack as a whole, like a clock almost.
in the spice dispenser little slidey thing maybe you can print in a little finger(s) that goes into the bottle, since it doesn't slide that far (as to break off...) that will kind of agitate the spice as it slides forward breaking apart clumps.
Awesome simple idea. Considering to implement it, but from what I’ve seen the spice is so stubborn that it could just create an interior column around the finger and still not flow.
Use a screw mechanism to get a consistent amount of spice.
Yes, a helical screw dispenser is probably the next prototype.
Great content! You didn't really get into the software or electrical stuff as much as hardware but still very entertaining and interesting! 😺
What about the software or electrical stuff are you curious about?
Could adding a reservoir that you can pre pump water in help? So that you immediatly start pumping water in, then just gravity feed it when needed
Cool idea. I'll think about this!
Someone DIY'ing a cooking robot! Love it. Turns out that we're both from AU (WA here), if you're down for a brown bag meeting occasionally, def hit me up. This robot is a good side project for a lazy cooker like myself :P
That makes at least two lazy cookers in the vicinity
0:10 perfect timing - reminds me of the Father-Inventor invention from Gremlins ✌️
You have the cart before the horse. You need to have the robot empty the sink of dishes and load and unload the dishwasher, then have it cook dinner and do the clean up after.
Excellent future project ideas 🤣
this is a very cool idea!! are you thinking of making this project open-source? id love to see everything that went into it
I’ve been thinking about it! If a few other people express interest I might put in the effort into making a GitHub for it. Only makes sense if people want to actively contribute though.
The obvious solution for the spices is to have an eccentric lobe on a standard motor that opens and closes the spice dispense that essentially whacks the shutter many times (based on how long you run the motor) two that the vibration and the dispense are incorporated into the same mechanism. Less motors, predictable dispense amounts (based on time).
Have you worked on something similar before?
The next obvious thing is to have the pan rotate and the spoon be in a fixed position…. Or at most move from the center to the edge while the pot rotates beneath it.. Two idler wheels inside the top rim and one drive wheel on the outside of the rim should take care of that.. Cool project thought.
Interesting. I hadn’t considered having the spoon fixed from the outside with a rotating pot. Will ponder this. Does potentially make inserting ingredients easier for a human but harder for a robot.
Next time, add a set of cylinders above filled with ingredients - that open into a shared dry or wet funnel into the cooking pot. No flipping nonsense.
How would you make the cylinders food grade / safe? I also need these containers to be able to hold liquids, e.g coconut milk
Just got to the point of the spice rack -- something like this but larger and above the cooking surface - except the upside down containers open into funnels - and the whole circle of cylinders spins, to control if something drops into the right side (dry) or left side (wet). (think dry beans vs. fresh cut onions)
Pretty good idea. They’d have to be food safe cylinders, so stainless steel ideally. Would be a bit challenging to make the funnel / slide combo easy to clean.
@@fun-gineering goods would be loaded from plastic bags, locked in with a twist-lock ring at the bottom (they'd have to be removed, put in with the mechanical lid placed on, then flipped upside down so the mechanically controlled lid is on bottom. Wet goods (i.e. chopped onions) may need something to get them out. Not Sure.
You'd use a different "lid" for liquids vs. solids. It quickly becomes more complex but looking at the commercial versions, this is how it's typically done.
Us a electric cooker small one and you can rotate it also and it is lightweight
You mean like an electric hot plate?
1:40 kitchenaid made a tilting stand mixer head attachment that was a spinning bowl, doesn't appear to be sold in Australia, but I wonder if it could be a good basis for a ghetto turning cooking bowl gadget
Now that I think about it... just get a second hand industrial kitchen mixer that had a floating bowl, so you can stick a heating element of some kind under it...
Yes, but.. you do need a nice flat base for induction to work. But I do like the mixing element. Might have been easier to use that than make a custom robot arm 🤣
@@fun-gineering aye. I can see how induction might not work on a bowl, but you could bung a Coleman gas cooker under there
Now THAT would be ghetto
You should make different sized insert-able/swap-able plates that would be inserted where the spice goes so you can hone in how much gets dispensed every time.
Neat idea - alternatively, could make custom dispensing routines - e.g. salt only gets one nudge of x milliseconds, paprika gets two nudges of y milliseconds
@@fun-gineering I think you need a measuring cup. Otherwise other factors will play a role, like how much spice is left in the jar. If it isn't sealing the spices properly, it may also depend on the air humidity on the day.
Yes, this is an unfortunate reality. Another commenter suggested spice infused oils and that is an intriguing idea..
What a fun project! How long did it take to build?
Longer than necessary 😂 Probably a month or two working in the evenings?
This is really cool, hope you get some better food out of it in the future.
@@astrocoderno1 😂 I also hope this
@@fun-gineeringnot bad, impressive!
I think it's allready perfect and you should definitely start experimenting with cracking eggs and split the yoke from the other part.
Eggscellent
Love the concept! But I do wonder if you might not have had decent luck figuring out how to make your own drum-based rolling machine rather than that robot arm, but you got that part working!
The drum roller technique seems to be waaaay more efficient. If you know how to get an off-the-shelf- roller pot with inbuilt stirrer, let me know!
could you kindly provide the circuit schematic for the induction capacitive button?
It’s linked in the video with a card (link top right) when I mention it.
Next video has to be version 2 of this
Don't you know it!
Here in China, there is a brand named TINCO, which made a cooking robot years ago. And most of us didn't buy it. I don't konw if I can post the link here.
From the research I did, there are actually many cooking robots in China. I’m not surprised they didn’t sell, either because of unreliability or inflexibility.
@@fun-gineering The real factor that affects our purchases is that these robots cannot truly save time, especially with complex Chinese dishes. You still need to stand beside the robot to deliver materials. It's different from their commercials.
Indeed! That’s the inspiration for this project I guess - these other cooking robots are fakers!
brilliant
Thanks!
Feels overengineered. Did you tried the coffee dispensing mechanism in coffee vending machine. Also the same mechanism can be used for chopped vegetables instead of flipping containers.
Even the stirring robotic arm is too costly for me. What about a BLE controlled something like: th-cam.com/users/shortsADOrVrzk5Q0
Thankfully I’m not designing this to a cost 🥲
What mechanism do you mean specifically from a coffee vending machine?
@@fun-gineering auger screw
Yes, I’m working on an auger screw concept for the spices as we speak
Fantastic
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Full-Auto coming next?
Next is a fully made *good* meal - and then more reliable spice dispensing, better / faster liquid dispensing. Baby steps!
Little text hard to read on phone when watching with wife and eating lunch. Please make text bigger. But really enjoyed video, waiting for part 2.
Ok, good feedback, can make text bigger 👍
It almost sounds like a Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) firing!
Bahahaha
Honestly, IMO the cooking part is easy. Prep is the annoying/time consuming part, Also there's so much variance in ingredients, when a recipe says "cook to taste", some times it means to your personal tastes, but often it is because there is no way to judge seasonings without tasting it and adjusting during the cook. Without some way of completely normalising ingredients (basically impossible task) or some way of getting taste feedback analogous to a human tongue, I don't see cooking robots ever being a serious endeavor
I think you underestimate my dislike of cooking 🤣 Fair point about getting a recipe right though. I think it’s possible with standardised measurements and a perfected recipe program. That’s how industrial cooking robots do it.
@@fun-gineering Oh yeah, I'm not saying you can't create a cooking robot that will produce acceptable food, I just doubt that these cooking robots can produce something great without that feedback was more my point. I'll always have a place for cooking, because I love making food as good as I possibly can. If something else could do that for me, I'd implement it it a heartbeat - I already don't feel like cooking every day - I just don't think the tech is anywhere near close
I'm mostly thinking out loud and talking in hypotheticals
The weird thing for me is.. I think the tech is totally there. The issue is the systems implementation. Yes it’s complicated, yes it’s really hard. But it’s not impossible.
@@fun-gineering Nah I don't think you get my point, if you get good enough at cooking you realise its more art than it is regimented step following. Like i say, without taste feedback, theres no way the robot can cook to a similar standard as someone who actually knows how to cook by taste
A robot can maybe get like, 80% of the way there without that for sure though
he who controls the spice controls the universe
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Yes
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Mmhhh, for your automatic rotating pot, there are several similar rotating pots available, simply called automatic cooking machine, starting at 350 dollar. Is that what you wanted?
Yeah, but I was after just the pot part, not the whole unit. I suppose you could start with a unit like that and then build the rest of the robot around it, but then it feels a bit like cheating.
@@fun-gineering You could get the cheapest model, that does, what you want your pot to do, and then take it apart, to get some... inspiration ;) or maybe you can find a repair video or showcase of the used mechanics.
For your spices, you could look up, how powder dispensers from laboratories/pharma work. I could only find one electric spice dispenser, but medical and lab equipment should deal more often with powders and exact dosages.
I’ve looked up a few machines that do this and they’re all gigantic and expensive. I’m not surprised!
Let gordan ramsay taste it
That's a very cool idea once this thing is in full swing
For a next generation of your experiment, I wonder if you might be able to make your originally intended rotating self-heating pot using a steel bowl, the base from an induction wok, and I guess you could rotate it using a rim drive that also holds it at an angle. th-cam.com/video/CzJKxUCKOBg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VCfKBjOo3NPeMTy3&t=449
Huh, I didn’t think of a steel bowl, that could maaaybe work, but the thickness of the steel might not be enough to be compatible with induction.
the water vapour from the pot is propably condensing in the spices and clogging up that whole system,
its the same reason you are not supposed to use those little spice things over boiling things
Yes, I was worried about this. The steam doesn’t actively intercept the spices though. And the issue I have with dispensing still exist after drying them out in a dehydrator. If this turns out to be an issue, we could just use a fan to blow the steam the other way.