Open Wireless Kettle

Follow-Up

Sep 29 2012

Nathan followed-up with Sam and Charles on Friday at London Hackspace.

• Charles: Worked on schematics Friday night
• Sam: Will commit on Sunday.
• Nathan: Will continue to follow-up

Sep 28 2012

Sam: What areas do you need to work on and progress so far? What do you need from Charles?
Charles: Same question. What do you need from Sam?

Overview

Features

• Timer
• Measures Levels. Using Digital Scales.
• Temperature Control
  • (For a Boiler, Not This Product) Adds Water - Water Source Attachment - Siphon Pump
• Data - How many types of cup per ect, ect
  • Stored at Pachube, Open Energy Monitor (local MySQL dB)
• Remote Kettle Telemetry / Cue for Order Time of Arrival / Cup Ordering
• Instruction Readout: each LED represents: Coffee or Tea. How many sugars? Milk?
• USB for external display, ect.

Specification Chain

• Sketches
• Design - CAD
  • Sam todo: sketch idea and general arrangement in Google Sketchup
• Prototype
• Integrate & Conclude Design
• Final Prototype
• Bill of Materials
• Determine Costs / Markup

Open Source License

GPL V3 Affero

__author__ = ""
__copyright__ = "Copyright 2012"
__credits__ = [""]
__license__ = "GPL Affero"
__version__ = "3"
__maintainer__ = ""
__email__ = ""
__status__ = "Prototype"
#"Prototype", "Development", or "Production". 

This file is part of Open Wireless Kettle.

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it under the terms of the GNU Affero Public License as published by
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Ask the Crowd

What other features would you like from your kettle?

Outcome

Saves Time / Water / Energy

Crowd Funding

• Kickstarter - Requires US Bank Account - Partner with Wikispeed and Open Source Ecology
• Indigogo?

Donation Reward

• Every $100 connects London Hackspace hardware described as the donor's name to the internet.
• Others?

Core Group

• Sam - Software / Hardware Engineer
• Charles - Fabrication
• Nathan - Architect