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INFO: KegMate by Yelp

Posted on 19. Aug, 2010 by Freddy Aikens in Featured, Info

KegMate by Yelp

An iPad-powered beer monitor.

Engineers from Yelp decide to make drinking beer more interactive.

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Sensors attached to the keg feed data into an Arduino microcontroller, which in turn communicates directly with the iPad via a serial connection. The iPad processes that data and displays it in a snazzy manner along with a description of the current brew. An RFID reader attached to the system allows users to ‘swipe in’ to KegMate and keep track of how much beer they’ve had, as well as assign a star rating for the beer currently in the keg

Tags: Beer, Hack, iPad, Yelp

Reviewed by: Freddy Aikens

Freddy is passionate about Indie Devs and spends most of his time hiding from his toilet plunger throwing next-door neighbour.