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Preview: Kegbot and Android

mike — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:51:49 -0700

You Asked, We Delivered: Kegbot Moves to Github

mike — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:15:44 -0700

Put down those knives and prepare your forks: starting with the just-released Kegbot v0.8.0, we've http://github.com/kegbot!

Kegbot Version 0.8.0 Released

mike — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:13:57 -0700

After a 6 month release hiatus, we squinted at the tip of the Kegbot tree, liked what we saw, and decided to slap a version number on it: Kegbot v0.8.0 is out!

## New Features & Stuff

You can check out the [changelog](http://kegbot.org/docs/developer-notes/changelog.html) for all of the exciting details; highlights:
* Relay support has returned to the Kegbot core and the Kegboard firmware. Impress your friends (and defy your enemies) by locking them out!
* ...

Kegbot Meetup, San Francisco: This Tuesday, April 5th!

mike — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:55:08 -0700

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Welcome to the new Kegbot Blog!

mike — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:31:27 -0700

You've made it! Welcome to the new Kegbot Blog.

## A brave new world

We migrated the old blog away from blogspot.com and into the kegbot.org tent. Truly this is exciting day in Kegbot history (if not world history).

## Tastes about as good, same filling

Chief among the many benefits you will enjoy from this seemingly uninteresting infrastructure change are:

* Part of the kegbot.org site -- no more hunting for bookmarks and hand-scrawled post-it notes...

Last call, round 2: Kegbot Arduino shield PCB

mike — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:03:00 -0700

Thanks to some recent prodding and help from Geoff over at Kegbot Milwaukee, we're getting very close to building a batch of "Kegshield" boards for our Kegboard firmware. I know, we said "last call" in our last post -- what, you've never heard of a lock-in?Though we originally proposed a 2-tap Arduino shield, we had an epiphany after a morning shave with a 5-bladed razor and said, "Fuck...

Last call: Kegbot Kegboard Shield, Second Draft

mike — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:30:00 -0700

Update, Aug 2010: See our most recent post with even more changes.After chatting with a few Kegbotters about the first draft Kegboard arduino shield (thanks for the feedback, Geoff, Jared, and others!), we realized our last design was like making an afternoon visit to Toronado,...

Facebot? Kegbook? It's your Kegbot drinks on Facebook!

mike — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:22:00 -0700

Similar to our last exploit involving the public broadcast of drinking habits, we've known for quite some time that someday, we'd need to wire the Kegbot up to Facebook.

What would you like on your Kegboard Arduino Shield?

mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:59:00 -0700

Our Kegboard firmware has been pretty solid these days, and we've been pretty happy with the features afforded by the basic Arduino Duemilanove board. So, the time has come to stamp out an Arduino "shield" daughtercard, making it as simple as AOL 9.0 to get your Kegbot online.The First DraftShown above is the first draft of...

"Tips" for your Kegerator: Kegbot, meet Dollar Bill Acceptor

mike — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:23:00 -0700

Finally, this blasted device is starting to earn its keep!After 13 kegs and...

Code corner: Recent Kegbot changes

mike — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:00:00 -0800

It has been a quiet month or two since we relaunched the kegbot.org site, so we don't have too many cool new features to write about. But we thought some readers might enjoy -- or at least, might not be board to tears by -- a round up of some recent changes to the kegbot code.More Taps, More Fun!On October 13th, we checked in a change to our Kegboard...

Relaunch of kegbot.org site

mike — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:23:00 -0700

This will be a quick one, partly because the topic does not lend itself easily to bad jokes, and partly because we've already tweeted about it (isn't that enough?)The Kegbot.org site has been relaunched; we've now got ourselves a message board for interested kegbotters, and some new goodies will be coming soon!

How to RFID enable your Kegerator

mike — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:02:00 -0700

Okay, so we may have lied in our last post. Although iButtons have long been our preferred way to authenticate to Kegbot, we've actually come up with something that is even more fun to use. Now presenting: the RFID-controlled Kegbot!The reader itself costs about $50, and it is probably possible to get one cheaper. I use self-adhesive...

Kegboard hops aboard the 1-wire bus

mike — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:13:00 -0700

Longtime Kegbot followers will know that we have something of a penchant for 1-wire iButton devices. They've been part of the Kegbot since drink 1 (ok, drink 100), and are our preferred drinker identification method. Sure, Kegbot can support other means of authentication, but nothing we've found matches that satisfying "clunk" of pressing an iButton into its socket -- and being rewarded with beer.

Jumping the shark, or getting cool: Kegbot tweets!

mike — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:33:00 -0700

Well, it's official: Either we've jumped the shark, or we have created the hippest dang kegerator on the planet: Kegbot now tweets. (solemn silence). We can safely say that not since Beenz has there been a more important and groundbreaking advance in internet technology!Although Kegbot has been recording drinks and causing trouble for over 5 years, until recently there was no convenient way to immediately notify your friends (and stalkers) about your...