IoT Karak - CarnegieApps 2017 Mentors Hack

Fahim Dalvi and I were invited to mentor CarnegieApps 2017 at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (CMUQ) in January, 2017.

We were given the opportunity to present a hack. We presented this hack as a token of appreciation for this hackathon and their organizers.

This repository contains our hack. I hope you like the idea! Let us know what you think!

• IoT - Internet of Things
• Karak - A hot drink composed of tea and sweetened-milk; extremely popular in the gulf region

The student body at CMUQ organizes a social every Thursday. An integral part of this meetup is the offering of free Karak. We have noticed that people love drinking karak to the point where they walk up to a pot and serve selves. Therefore, given that we live in the world of IoT, we wanted to automate this process and allow the pot to automatically serve the people.

We connected a pot of Karak to the internet and allowed people to ask the pot for Karak wirelessly!

We built an intricate "arm" to pump the Karak out of the pot. This arm was controlled by Raspberry Pi connected to the internet. All the user had to do is to go to the pot's webpage and request a karak.

Below is a video for illustration. This video was shot in the testing phase. The pot contained water.

Notice: we would have come up with a simpler and elegant hack if we could have had more time, resources, and sleep (don't forget that we were mentoring people)

Fahim and I presenting our hack!

This is me being extremely happy about this "technology"

We would like to thank everyone for making this project possible and the hackathon family.

I would like to thank Fahim for working with me on, it was definitely fun to work on something just for the fun of it. Also I would like to thank Daanish Khan for providing us with lego blocks and the Raspberry Pi.