I’ve been spending a bit of time with Claude code and was wondering what I could do with kegbot. One thing I’ve battled with a little is finding the right tablet. So I got Claude to write me a bridge that runs on a raspberry pi. It takes the ticks from the arduino and presents a web socket so you can get live pours. My web server takes that and essentially does what the android app does. The pour counter isnt as smooth as usb but it’s very much good enough. It also let me work around one issue with calibration in that now a calibration pour will send to the server with the new calibrated value. No more manually updating pour volumes!
hell yeah brother
I’ve been considering a full kegbot rewrite that is simply:
- Raspberry pi (solenoid valves, flow meters OR load cells)
- Webcam
- Web app (leaderboard, accounts, admin panel, etc)
- Tablet to display web app
Much more barebones, much less messing around with android and USB connectivity
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