Project Description
The Kitchen PC is, as you’d expect, a PC built into a countertop or cabinet. Locating a PC in your kitchen is worthwhile because once you have processing, storage, and a display where you’re cooking, there’s almost no end to what you might find for that PC to do:
1. Internet access gives you the ability to look up new recipes, ingredients, preparation tips, and more. For example, do you know what a kiwano is? (We refer to them as alien seed pods...)
2. Integrating the last chapter’s barcode reader and database lets you maintain a running kitchen inventory, one you can use to help generate a grocery list and to track how you’re doing on a diet. Peter Anspach,
3. Recipes stored in a database would let menu planning software add items to the grocery list based on chosen dishes and existing inventory.
4. Tying digital scales to the PC helps you scale amounts.
5. A video feed—from cable, satellite, or antenna, or from your network using the networked TV —lets your PC double as a television.