As their electromechanical design capstone project, Taylor Tabb, Evan Hill and Mitchell Riek built a fully automated grilled cheese maker dubbed Cheeseborg.
Cheeseborg's one purpose? To make the best grilled cheese it possibly can! Housed in a laser-cut enclosure, Cheeseborg utilises 7 subsystems to automate the process:
- Bread dispenser
- Cheese dispenser
- Vacuum lifting to assemble the sandwich
- Spray butter on the grill
- Loading the sandwich onto the grill
- Grill control system
- Dispensing the completed grilled cheese
To top it all off, they also integrated Google Assistant, so that you can ask “Hey Google, make me a grilled cheese, please.” to ensure the entire process is hands-free. All of the mechanisms are controlled by an Arduino Mega, whilst Google Assistant is running on a Raspberry Pi 3b.
Check out the video to see Cheeseborg in action! You can also read the writeups on both Taylor and Evan's websites.