Soda frothed up and overflowed the glass coming out of the bar monkey.
I think kegs and fountain soda work at a much higher pressure (our
monkey only uses a few PSI) and the valves are right at the end of the
tubing where as our monkey has quite a bit of tube after the valve.

If you find a way to make it work please do share.

Good luck. It’s a fun project.

I am starting to seriously consider building a small scale bar monkey, and have been reading everything I can on it. However, I would really like mine to work with soda / tonic.

My advice is to involve a few of your more clever friends and don’t be afraid to improvise. My only warning is that the budget can easily get out of control on this project, especially if you’re in a hurry.

It’s a great project, but because not all parts are going to be available everywhere it would be very difficult to write a true how-to.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful. Good luck.

It seems like you have a reasonable budget, a good plan, and a good team. Best of luck to you, and I hope to hear how this comes out!

Jon

thank you,

My name is Jack, and I’ve been toying around with some ideas for my own
barmonkey over the past few weeks. Since there’s not much activity of
the barmonkey.net forums, I’ve sorta been lurking around and reading up
on things, coming up with my own ideas, etc. I’ve decided to develop a
small, portable drink making computerized machine inside of a computer
ATX case. My friend is helping me a little bit, and suggested we call it
the Drinkputer. I’m even doing an LCD screen case mod so that I don’t
have to lug around a monitor.

I’ve got hardware, I bought an assembled K108A serial relay, I got some
windshield washer pumps from sciplus.com and even got two Flojet C02
pumps from ebay for like $30. I’m started to put it all together. But
the problem for me is the software. I know hardware, and have a limited
amount of electronics knowledge, but programming is totally not my
thing. So I’m planning on trying a few of the programs I found on
barmonkey.net once I get everything put together over the next week or
so. If possible, I’d love to try out Alan’s software.

Anyway, just wanted to throw all that out there. Gotta go to a meeting.
Heheh. Cya!

-Jack

and I replied:

Sounds cool Jack. I like the name, as long as it doesn’t make you into a drinkpuker…

I’ll pass on your request for the software to Alan.

I’m guessing you’re going to have the bottles external to the ATX case right? It could get a bit crowded in there as well (not to mention warm up the liquor and boil off all the alcohol.) Sounds like you’ve got a good start to things. Good luck!

Jon