For one of our office parties, DMC's Boston office made an automatic bartender by utilizing industrial automation equipment. Before we disassembled it, we made a '90s style infomercial.
The blog linked above has much more detail on how we built the automatic bartender, but here's a short list of some of the tech used:
- Siemens S7-1500 PLC
- Siemens S7-1200 PLC configured using I-Device
- Siemens KP8 key panel
- Philips Hue lightbulbs
And of course, here is our infomercial: