I'm planning on making a automated robot to make a specific tea when I send an email to my computer. Im planning on having my pc(or mac, doesn't matter) receive the email, parse it then send the arduino what kind of tea I want. I don't know how I can send the kind of tea I want made to the arduino though... I'm planning on buying the Adafruit Arduino starter kit, and the servo shield. If I get the ethernet shield can I mount both at the same time?
Once I get the arduino to find out what kind of tea I want made, I'm planning on it boiling g water to 80/100 degrees celsius with a small electric kettle and a thermoneter. I also cant seem to find a small water pump that can work with hot/boiling water. The pump doesn't need to be very quick and it only has to pump a cup of water. Once the water is in the pot I need to push up on the bottom of the tea filter so the actual tea can drain. Can I use a servo to some how push up in a straight line?
Summary
A way to wirelessly send small amounts of data, probably single digits to the arduino.
Can I use more than one shield from adafruit on the same arduino?
A small waterpump to pump a cup of hot water.
Can I use a servo to push straight up on the bottom of my tea filter?
I couldn't post the tea filter I have until I posted once... IngenuiTEA Teapot from Adagio Teas . You drop the tea through the top and once its ready you're supposed to set it down on your cup so it raises a valve and lets the tea drain through and the loose tea bits stay in the filter. I want to simulate this by pressing up on the filter since it would be easier than having the arduino set the filter down on the cup.
Well this is by no means a simple project, but perhaps possible!
To the best of my knowledge:
2. Yes you can use two shields simultaneously, you would need to pick up an extendershield from liquidware.com (you'll see what i mean)
3. Obviously you'll probably need to interface a relay here and that should take care of simple power on/off for the pump
4. servo's can push straight up on the bottom, you could attach it directly or rig some sort of cam to push the fliter.
I wouldn't know how to go about the software aspect of your project (im a hardware guy) but I'm sure someone here might be able to help you script some Python or whatnot to accomplish the email scan and appropriate serial com to ur Arduino
hmmm...I couldn't find much of anything that was a small hot water pump that was not meant for home improvement purposes. this seemed interesting (even though it's for coffee it could work just the same...
I think it would be much easier to just hack a cheap coffee maker so that you can have the small water heater/dispenser in one. yet this would require some sort of tubing system to move the hot water to your tea filter