Cheeseborg has one purpose: to create the best grilled cheese it possibly can! Cheeseborg is fully automated, voice activated, and built from scratch. With Google Assistant SDK integration, Cheeseborg can even be used as a part of your smart home.

Since 2018, Cheeeseborg has been featured in Raspberry Pi Magazine, Hackster, Daily Mail, Hackaday, Arduino Blog, and a variety of other global print and digital publications.

Our goal was to make an easy snack even easier. The design combines 7 individual subsystems enabling the assembly, cooking, and serving of a perfect, repeatable, tasty grilled cheese.

A big learning was how challenging it is to manipulate bread and cheese repeatedly. After several iterations, we converged on a vacuum lift mechanism, inspired by industrial robotic manipulation of small electronics. Due to the porosity of bread and the gloss of cheese, it was very challenging to find a mechanism working for both, but vacuum certainly seemed to do the trick!