{"id":919,"date":"2016-08-25T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2016-08-30T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T04:34:09","slug":"hot-pocket-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Bot Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Role: Built the mechanics, designed &#038; 3d printed custom parts, designed and built relay and solenoid circuits for a rush pitch over a 3-4 day period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We built a twitter-enabled microwave to let you Tweet-to-Heat a Hot Pocket.  While the campaign never launched, we had a lot of fun building the rush job for a friend&#8217;s ad agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Kleeb, my studio mate at Floating Point developed the python-code to interface a Raspberry Pi with twitter as well as circuit bending the keypad on the microwave.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I disassembled the door and replaced the latch with a mechanism that would be easier to defeat with a hard strike from a spring loaded rod.  <\/p>\n<p>The rod was a souped-up version of those pinball machine ball launching plungers.  The rod was a piece of hardware made for screen doors that I used an angle grinder to cut down.  The back end was fed into the magnet end of a solenoid powered by a triac (a\/c relay).  When the raspi knew the Hot Pocket was done heating, the relay would flip, disengaging the magnet, letting the spring-loaded rod collide into the inside of the door, defeating the now-weaker latch for instant bravado smart microwave action.  Hopefully not too much radiation happening.<\/p>\n<p>If you look carefully, you can see the stainless steel rod protruding out of the microwave after the door swings open.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hot Pocket Bot\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/180258653?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role: Built the mechanics, designed &#038; 3d printed custom parts, designed and built relay and solenoid circuits for a rush pitch over a 3-4 day period. We built a twitter-enabled microwave to let you Tweet-to-Heat a Hot Pocket. While the campaign never launched, we had a lot of fun building the rush job for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-pcomp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}