{"id":16157,"date":"2017-01-03T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2017-01-04T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T12:54:39","slug":"tea-bag-dunker-uses-a-raspberry-pi-and-an-old-cd-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16157","title":{"rendered":"Tea bag dunker uses a Raspberry Pi and an old CD drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tea.jpg?resize=311%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tea.jpg?w=311&amp;ssl=1 311w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tea.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tea.jpg?resize=260%2C347&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tea.jpg?resize=160%2C214&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This made me giggle<\/em>. \ud83d\ude42 Andrey Chilikin has come up with a way of automating the tea brewing process by pressing into action an old CD\/DVD drive and a Raspberry Pi.\u00a0They use GPIO to trigger the motor on the drive and present a text-based interface for status messages. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/achilikin\/cdtea\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the code and schematic<\/a>\u00a0should you wish to replicate this brewing sensation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This made me giggle. \ud83d\ude42 Andrey Chilikin has come up with a way of automating the tea brewing process by pressing into action an old CD\/DVD drive and a Raspberry Pi.\u00a0They use GPIO to trigger the motor on the drive&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16157\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,45,48],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-16157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-robotics","category-silliness","tag-tea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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