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This wiki provides a description of the hardware and software characteristics behind the RaspberryPi-powered tea maker `Excellentea'.

Hardware

Main body

The case of the Excellentea tea maker is made from 3 mm thick acrylic panels, held together with glue.

Internal components

1 Raspberry PI microcontroller board (tested on version 3 Model B)
1 Stepper motor (MIKROE-1530)
1 Digital temperature sensor (ds18b20)
12V DC power supply
1 heating element (12V) (B004O8BGXE)
1 tea infuser
1 reed float sensor (59630)
2 18-pin through hole socket (ED18DT)
2 Darlington transistor array (ULN2803A)
LCD
2 N-channel logic-level MOSFET (FQP30N06L)
MOSFET heat sink (507222B00000G)

Additional components

Software