🍸 Cocktail Maker

Cocktail Maker is a modern Qt-based desktop application for creating and managing cocktail recipes — and even controlling real-world hardware to mix your drinks automatically!

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🧭 Overview

This project combines C++23, Qt, and a range of modern C++ libraries to deliver a sleek, responsive, and extensible cocktail-making experience.

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🎥 Demo

Watch a short demo on YouTube: 👉 https://youtu.be/46x27AaOHKw

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🧩 Features

• 🥃 Choose cocktail recipes
• 🧠 Safe and type-checked units with mp-units
• ⚡ Asynchronous hardware control using boost::asio
• 💡 GPIO control with libgpiod
• 💬 Fast and structured logging via spdlog
• 🎨 Responsive UI built with Qt
• 🧪 Comprehensive testing using catch2 and quite for UI tests

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📚 Contribute Recipes

Want to expand the cocktail collection? Add your recipes here: ➡️ recipes directory

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🛠️ Technologies Used

Purpose	Library / Framework
Language	C++23
UI	Qt
Async I/O	Boost.Asio
GPIO Control	libgpiod
Units & Safety	mp-units
Logging	spdlog
Formatting	fmt
Testing	Catch2, quite

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🚀 Getting Started

Clone the repository

1. Download vcpkg and set the environment variable VCPKG_ROOT.

Then:

git clone https://github.com/mathisloge/cocktail-maker.git
cd cocktail-maker
cmake --workflow production

Afterwards install the generated .deb package and run cocktail-maker.

Hardware setup

TBD