After countless (15+) hours of trying to find a solution to the WiFi intermittent connection, I stumbled across an idea from someone - the Raspberry Pi wasn't able to give enough power to the WiFi adapter. Supposedly, these adapters take quite a bit of bower (over 500 mA), and the Pi can only give a max of 500 mA through its USB ports. This was all theory, but I as I researched I found similar recommendations.
Thus, my quest to find a powered USB hub was on. I tried finding a simple, cheap, one, but there were NO recommendations that I could find that were suited for the Pi (so that it didn't fry it). After searching long enough, I settled on a little more expensive solution - PiHub (http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pihub).
Once I plugged the powered hub in, everything was working perfectly! WiFi was no longer dropping, and I could now power all my USB gadgets through this hub instead of the Pi. What a relief!
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Next up this week was getting our database set up. We have decided that since the whole system must be connected to a WiFi network in order to be controlled via user's phones, then we had no reason to keep the database locally on the Pi. Therefore, we will be hosting the database and webpage on our own server which will allow people to access it from ANYWHERE, and off the WiFi network.
The beginnings of a great webpage:
http://roqetmarketing.com/drinkmixer/hey.php
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