Pumpkin spice, also known as allspice with better marketing, has found its way into a seemingly endless amount of products over the years. It goes beyond the obvious foodstuffs of pies and cakes; because there are plenty of candles, deodorants, and air fresheners ready to add a little more spice to your world. One such autumnal smell enthusiast, YouTube user [J-Knows], sought to automate the delivery mechanism with his 3D printed pumpkin spice aerosol sprayer.
The sprayer device uses an Arduino to rotate a small 3D printed arm that depresses the button on an air freshener cap. This design came as a result of multiple attempts to create a clip that would securely attach to a standard canister. When problems arose with the clip slipping out of place after the motor rotated, a pinch of sticky tack ended up being just the solution. With the proper amount of adhesion, the automated sprayer could now “pollute” any space it is in, as [J-Knows] described.
What took this project to another level is the addition of an Adafruit GPS module. It was coded to respond when it was within one mile of a Starbucks — arguably the organization responsible for the pumpkin spice craze. For some the company’s pumpkin spice latte (PSL) is synonymous with all things fall, and marks the beginning of the season when it is brought back to the coffee menu. Though not being a regular coffee drinker himself, [J-Knows] fully committed to the bit by taking his creation on a test trip to his local Starbucks for a PSL. Judging by the amount of pumpkin spice aerosol solution that ended up on his car dash, he is going to be smelling it into the next year.
I have never been so confused by the purpose of an electronics project.
Agreed. Probably mission accomplised I should guess! :-D
Random intrusive thoughts manifested with electronics.
It’s like “I got drunk one evening and when I came to the next day I was holding this” made manifest.
Weirdly, allspice is a specific spice from one source, while pumpkin spice is a mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and sometimes allspice and / or cloves.
But is it ever really Pumpkin Spice Season?
hahah what a ridiculous hack but it’s great to see geofencing, the promised smartphone killer feature of 2008, actually being used
fwiw, geofencing finally works for me on android…it used to work very very intermittently, and then they repeatedly broke the API over the span of a decade, and now i just updated to the newest API and voila it works. i still feel like i’m the only person in the whole word to use the official ‘google play’ geofencing API. my shopping list pops up on the notifications screen whenever i’m within two blocks of a grocery store. my ‘other’ shopping list pops up when i’m within 2 blocks of the hardware store.
Remind me to never eat pumpkin pie at your house. Pumpkin spice involves more than allspice!
They should be charged under the Geneva Convention for chemical warfare.