{"id":919,"date":"2016-08-25T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2021-03-09T01:03:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:03:59","slug":"hot-pocket-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/2016\/08\/25\/hot-pocket-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hot Pocket Bot\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/180258653?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Role: Built the mechanics, designed &amp; 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 class=\"\">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 class=\"\">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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role: Built the mechanics, designed &amp; 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":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,269],"tags":[327,325,329,326,328,330],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-pcomp","tag-bot","tag-hot","tag-microwave","tag-pocket","tag-raspi","tag-solenoid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikelberman.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}