Welcome to Kegbot! Kegerator monitor and access control.
Kegbot is a free, open-source project to turn your beer kegerator into
a computerized drink tracker. With Kegbot and our Arduino firmware, you can:
Monitor exactly how much beer is left in your kegs and track the temperature;
Record the volume of each and every pour;
Set up user accounts to track who is drinking, how much, and all sorts of other nutty statistics;
Use special keys (tokens, RFID tags, barcodes) to authenticate your kegerator users;
Control access to your taps (with special valve hardware) to prevent unauthorized pours;
... and many other crazy things!
Want one? Check out our documentation at left.
Please pardon our dust as we work to improve this site: please stop by the forums or IRC to get help
building your own!
You'd have to be living under a rolling rock -- or maybe just not following Kegbot on Twitter -- to have missed our latest mad invention: Kegbot for Android!
Android, Arduino, and Beer
Chief among the goals of Kegbot for Android is to making building and running a Kegbot dead simple, and to bring a cool new touchscreen UI to your tap. But really, we just wanted to combine three of our favorite pastimes: Android, Arduino, and of course, beer!
Coming Soon
We're currently testing this in a very small private beta, but we'll have more goodies and a release soon. Reload this page continuously until then!
It is no secret that Github has become the de facto social hub for opensource projects, and, we'll, we're curious to see if we'll receive more contributions from you intrepid hackers this way. Plus, like we said a few years ago, you gotta switch version control systems every year or two to stay cool.
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 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!
Under the hood, the Kegbot core program now uses the Kegbot REST API to report drinks. Sip your pours with the satisfaction of knowing a MYSQL connection to your backend was not required to log it!
Many small tweaks to the Kegweb interfaces. (We're doing what we can, but our HTML/CSS "skills" are about as weak as a half pint of O'Douls. Help welcome.)
Head on over to the downloads site and grab a copy for yourself.
Holy hoppin' hell, has it really been over 6 months since our last blog post? We've been hard at work behind the scenes, with a lot of goodies in store for Kegbot this spring. But we need to start by making amends the only way we know how: with a ritualistic public flogging at a local watering hole.
You're invited!
Join us this Tuesday, April 5th, 7pm at Nihon Whiskey Lounge for the first ever Kegbot Meetup.
What's going to go down? It's anyone's guess! Some of the hottest internet rumors may include:
Raffles and giveaways of prizes from local merchants;
An expert panel on the roles of gender and sexuality in keg management;
A special appearance by a famous rap celebrity;
... or maybe it'll just be some nerds hanging out, talking about ways to make their beer refrigerators irrationally complicated. Who knows.
The fun will start at 7pm. For safety reasons, commit access to the kegbot repository will be temporarily suspended shortly thereafter. Don't wait -- book your cross-country flights today!
Calendar Invite
Add me to your Google Calendar and make your significant other jealous.
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 when you want the latest Kegbot news.
Commenting integrated with your kegbot.org account. (Don't tell us you don't have one yet? I seem to have.. something in my eye.. I'm not crying, I swear.. Just set one up.)
Shorter URL. Because unlike life, on the internet, shorter is better.
A call to action
If you've not already done so, please update your bookmarks (and the bookmarks of at least two friends). Here are the essentials:
