#GAS POWERED MARGARITA MACHINE PORTABLE#
At the time it was mostly a joke, but ultimately we did establish that Spot should provide about 300W of electrical power to it's payload ports-in the range of an average blender.Ĭoincidently, Max happened to have a portable margarita machine with a broken battery, which offered a great opportunity for a design validation experiment to see if we had enough power. One engineer suggested a blender-that the payload port be powerful enough to crush ice. What would be a high-powered moving payload? And how much power would it need? Some possible payloads, like sensors and cameras, were obvious, but what if we had something that actually needed power to move. As part of that project, we were brainstorming the power requirements for hypothetical use cases. Devin was working on the main board for Spot, which all of the payloads plug into. Margarita Spot dates back to early 2019 it’s actually one of the earliest Spot payloads ever implemented. Whose idea was it to build a margarita delivery machine? Was there a goal for the project beyond delicious frozen beverages? Then Spot sits with the motors off so you can safely collect and serve your drinks.
When you fire the blender up, Spot does a little shimmy and shake to really mix up the margarita.
Through the payload API, we programmed the settings for the drink machine, as well as custom configuration for Spot’s balance and behavior when it’s in use. You add the ingredients and Spot does the rest-crushing ice, blending the mix, and delivering a mobile margarita. It’s a custom payload that adds a Margaritaville® drink machine to Spot. Margarita Spot is basically what you would expect from the name. What is Margarita Spot? What exactly does it do? We sat down with Devin Billings and Max von der Heydt, the engineers who created Margarita Spot, to chat about why they built it, how it works, and what we can learn from this example. But before all that, there was Margarita Spot: an internal project developing a Spot payload that blends the perfect margarita. For example, Spot has a storied history with alcoholic beverages, from inspecting breweries to doing other activities with beer. This flexibility also opens up opportunities for more creative applications. Whether it’s building the tools to explore other planets or to inspect worksites, the ability to easily build on Spot’s base functionality has huge real-world value. Spot is more than a mobile robot it’s a mobile sensing platform that developers can customize with software, sensors, and other hardware payloads to achieve exactly what they need for specific applications.
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