Nov 8, 2013
And it's not a beer-puller.
A student at the University of Oxford has modified a Raspberry Pi to alleviate the workload at his college bar. Johan Paulsson, who's studying for a PhD in theoretical physics at Wolfson College, was dissatisfied with the performance of the bar
Specifically, the Raspberry Pi can fetch sales data at 30-minute intervals directly from the bar, which is stored as a MySQL database and used with plotting tools for data analysis. Parse emails can then be received from suppliers after stock deliveries to cross-reference them with till sales, which can effectively warn staff of stock shortages, as well as update till prices when suppliers change theirs.