Jamie Bailey, founder of Initial Slate, an Internet of Things solutions company, recently published a DIY beer and wine refrigerator using IoT technologies.
Bailey brought the project together with some simple electronics like a Raspberry Pi, door sensor, Wii balance bar and a temperature sensor. The result is a refrigerator that monitors all kinds of cool stats about your drinking behaviours: who’s been in your fridge, how much you’ve consumed in a certain period of time, etc.
Check out Bailey’s tutorial which includes the code needed to put it all together, along with wiring diagrams, bill of materials and a guide to connecting the Wii Balance Board to a Raspberry Pi.
By hooking up the Wii Balance Board, you’ll be able to monitor how many bottles are inside the refrigerator. The door sensor will be able to detect (quite obviously) when the door is opened or closed and the temperature sensor will monitor the cooler and provide the ideal temperature. Don’t forget the Raspberry Pi which will monitor all of your data and send it to a cloud service. All of the information acquired can even be sent to your devices by using Initial Slate’s services.
According to the tutorial the entire project should only take you about 30 minutes. For a full set of details visit Initial Slate’s website.
