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Coffepot Computer
marshman113 submitted quite possibly the most important innovation in case design since the internal hard drive: here is a coffee pot computer. Yes this guy actually integrated two of the greatest innovations of mankind into one convenient case!
link ?
Cruise TT
This could be interesting
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Coffee.html
Does he use the CDROM drives as cup holders?
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
So does it run Java?
I'll get me coat.
puts a new spin on the term java beans?
/.ed
i think the site has just been
And it's gone, faster than a fresh pot of coffee.
Great...now I gotta break out the beer just to get my morning kick.
Perhaps if they poured the coffee made by the server, into the server, then we could view the page too!
especially with a domain name like pimprig.com. sometimes life just makes you smile.. But i do wonder if you could integrate the water cooling with the coffee making... use a counterflow heat transfer coil to heat the water for the brewing of the coffee, those chips get hot enough to do the job...
Think of it no longer having to get up and walk to the coffe pot! This is nobel prize material!
"I drank what?" - Socrates
This article has been on slashdot barely 5 minutes and the source is already slashdotted... sheesh. Either that or someone cut the cat-5 right before pimprig's server exploded.
Anyway, here is a direct link to the image. You can find a more reliable link (tho the picture is smaller) here, just scroll down the page.
Janie took my gun...
Unless it's RFC 2324 compliant, I'm not interested.
sulli
RTFJ.
2 greatest inventions... hmmm coffee? I guess a lot of people like coffee.. I find it personally highly revolting and disgusting...
lets see.. take perfect pristine water and then add it to ground up beans and end up drinking dirty black water... hmm no thanks I'll pass.. hardly a great invention in my book..
and why do people drink decaf?!?! thats even worse! your not even trying to wake up!! sheesh take some acid or somthing people! that will wake u up for sure!
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
I guess this is the first time slashdot has slashdotted a coffee machine...
I wonder if the coffee's heated with the CPU? Bet he'll be getting hot coffee now.
(OK, I don't know whether it was hosting the pages, 'cause I haven't read the article, 'cause the article's been slashdotted.)
I doubt, therefore I may be.
When I read the headline, I thought I'd just be able to connect it up, and do something like:
/dev/coffee
echo capachino >
and get an email from it when it was done. Unfortunately not.
I can't wait for the inevitable Microsoft(tm) version to come out, that only makes Tea, and Hot Chocolate, and with a fixed amount of sugar and milk.
If you drew them when youwere five and were riding down a dirt road in the dark...
Great Linux Site
in terms of online coffee
this was one of the first places I went when I was online thanks to john levine
history of the cambridge coffee pot
Trojan Room
coffee pot
regards
john jones
Disclaimer: I don't take any resonsibility for the things happening (eg. implosion of the known universe) when you actually try this...
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein
You beat me to that one!
My office has been taken over by iPod people.
There's probably a good reason why coffy makers and computers are not habitually combined: water and electronics, like firearms and alcohol, don't mix too well.
I don't think he's even using the heat from the chips to boil his water (supply and demand differ) so what's the point? I'd rather just put the one machine next to the other on the desk.
Then again, as health consiousness is geeky these days, just leave the darn thing in the kitchen and get up every now and then! (Not that you'll improve your health much by drinking the stuff....)
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
...make lemonade.
If your overclocked AMD processor is on the verge of nuclear fusion, you can at least use the heat for a good cuppa joe.
-Styopa
If they could add a urinal to this, I'd never have to leave my desk.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Cool, we can use this to bug Klink's office and hear the result using Voice over IP!
The site was, of course, /.'ed so I couldn't see, but if he has an Athlon in that rig and uses it to heat the coffee, his cups better have a warning printed on them! :-)
~Philly
but can it make my coffee!.... oh wait :)
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
My Precious.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
So wheres the cupholder?
I thought beer was one of the two greatest inventions...
Your mammas flamebait.
Unfortunatly, the SD Effect boiled the pot dry and the poor machine exploded. Better luck next time.
SD
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Hummm.... how about a computer and micro-brewery in the same case.... That would be very interesting.
© 2004 The SCO Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Finally get to use the 500 BTU's or so my new 1.7Ghz AMD is tossing out. I was actually thinking of laying the case flat on a few of the dells at work and gap the heating to the roof of the case as a coffee warmer.
I can see the special glue now. Artic Blue becomes Sumatra Brown.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
coffee by cronjob.
Evil is the money of root.
Could I heat the coffee by running a webserver on it and posting and article on slashdot linking to it??
...might simply be hosting the mod website on the modded computer itself. If the machine gets slashdotted by overheating, the mod is rejected.
someone had ot say it...
This is quite possibly the coolest (oh wait.. warmest, warmest) case ever. After reading through the article, it sounds like it took this guy *forever* to make. He did an awful lot of painting, but appears to have been worth it. So how much for one of these things? I know a crap load of people who would buy something like this.
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WebServer Beat down quicker than minority group by the LAPD.
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
didn't the original coffee cam (also) catch fire once? two-for-two...remind me not to mix coffee and hardware.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
I think we have slashdoted a coffee pot before? maybe this is the first....
This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/22475
The site is in Dutch, but the picture isn't
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Much better design :)
I loaded the page halfway once, then my browser crashed.
/. effect cause 404s. :)
After the restart, the page is 404ing - In fact, EVERYTHING on that site is 404ing... Is this happening for anyone else? I've never seen the
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Here you can see a non-slashdotted version of the coffee mod :) (picture only): http://athena.tweakers.net/ext/i.dsp/1026131486.jp g
I've already gained roast access to this!
Sorry...
Actually, SGI was there first quite a few years back, with the Espressigo. There's a picture at http://reality.sgiweb.org/eile/espressigo/espressi go1.jpg
It's essentially an espresso machine in an SGI Indigo case.
There are different stories behind it, but the most often heard was that it was a promo giveaway by SGI.
"Excuse any site problems while we move to a new DEDICATED server. The transition should be complete within 72 hours or less." - The PimpRig Staff
/. link, site goes down, 10 minutes later they're moving. :)
That has to be the fastest reaction to a slashdotting I've ever seen...
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
"The best part of booting up is Foldgers in your cup."
...
http://www.pimprig.com says;
PimpRig.com
Excuse any site problems as we move to a new DEDICATED server.
The transition should be complete within 72 hours or less.
- The PimpRig.com Staff
From the home page:
Excuse any site problems as we move to a new DEDICATED server.
The transition should be complete within 72 hours or less.
- The PimpRig.com Staff
Too much traffic for the shared server I would guess.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Well according to http://www.pimprig.com they are down while moving to a new server..... Wonder if thats because or in-spite of /. :)
Thanks God it doesn't have a pizza oven and a toilet - I'd never get out of my chair!
Proof again that Spaceballs predicted the future with oh-so-much accuracy...
You call this thing a radar?
No, sir, actually we call it Mr. Coffee....
Of course their coffee maker was simply adjacent to their radar, this is one step better. Just wait till somebody tries to jam the computer.
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
I can't believe people drink that stuff. I couldn't imagine a more vile, disgusting, bitter liquid people could willingly ingest.
:)
You should all be drinking Pepsi instead.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
Ph33r m3!!!
But does it comply with HTCPCP
Does it use a AMD Athlon as a heating element?
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it's not offtopic at all, you dumb git.
So...if this thing runs Windows and brews Starbucks coffee, does that make it twice as evil?
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For some reason this reminds me of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams could take seemingly unrelated components and convince you that this was the only way to make it work.
If he can just integrate a urinal into his computer he'll never have to leave his desk.
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Do these guys know they've been slashdotted?
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I was trying to make coffee and spent the entire day on the phone with MS tech support!
MS Support: Hello, what seems to be the problem?
me: My "Microsoft(R) Wake!(TM) Coffee Maker" won't make coffee.
MS Support: OK, have you gone through the "Microsoft(R) Wake!(TM) Coffee Maker Assistant Wizard(TM)"?
me: Yes.
MS support: OK, let's walk through it again.
{we go through the steps}
MS Support: Ok, there's your problem.
me: What?
MS Support: The coffee you are trying to use is not on the BCL.
me: BCL?
MS Support: The "Beans Compatability List". You should have checked the BCL before trying to use your coffee. You need to return the coffee to the place of purchase and get one that has been certified to operate with the Microsoft(R) Wake!(TM) Coffee Maker. Thank you and have a nice day.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
Imagine one day walking to your coffee machine and saying "I'd like a triple expresso, pronto." and the coffee machine making what you want in 30 seconds. Just because you said "pronto?" Yea... thats the coffee machine I want. Good coffee fast... but the problem would be trying to keep up with it.
Error 505: Attempt to create mocha failed
Insufficient mix
" Any human that requires a chemical stimulant, should volunteer to be sterilized so evolution can progress."
How about this:
'Any human that requires anything other than a rock should volunteer to be sterilized so evolution can progress.'
or
'Any human that requires a derived chemical...
or
'requires technology
or
'requires knowledge
Yeah, they all sound stupid now don't they.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
I wonder...if doing this to my office box would be grounds for dismissal?
[rimshot]
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pic archived.
only thing the web site says is:
Warning: Failed opening '/home/pimprig/public_html/sections.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in Unknown on line 0
This is the best
Being called a dork on Slashdot must be like being called the retard in special ed.
Colonel Klink is going to be mad when he finds out that Hogan and his crew have been surfing the web with a coffee pot.
Uhh, guys? This isn't a coffee pot computer. This is a coffee maker.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
Come on ppl, it's a hacked up box with a bunch of light strips. I have some on my patio for a 'Disco ' effect. Geeks aren't boring, they just get excited about boring things.
Your sig here!
I won't be impressed until I see a computer integrated with a beer tap & a barstool. Those are two of the greatest innovations of mankind.
managers...why god invented purgatory
You've slashdoted my coffee pot....
Now I'm getting Blue coffee of death!!
arrghgg!!
Anybody out there remember this?
I stuck my computer inside a wheel. It rolled away or I would post a link to it. The best part was that as it rolled it used gyroscopes to generate its own electricity, the more CPU cycles it required the more it slowed down. So to perform really complex stuff I had to climb a big hill and let it go. Those were the days!
Bah. This is old news. Haven't these people ever heard of the Coffee HOWTO?
Nathan's blog
Now, if someone could just figure out how to make one of these...........
I submitted this link too...
:)
But I also mirrored the picture
N.
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
It seems we've /.'ed Mr. Coffee.
ObSpaceBalls:
HELMET: What's the matter with this thing? What's all that churning and bubbling? You call that a radar screen.
SANDURZ: No, sir. We call it, "Mr. Coffee." Care for some?
HELMET: Yes! I always have coffee when I watch radar. You know that.
Great. As if my load-up time isn't long enough, now I've got to wait for my machine to get its morning cup of Joe.
I wonder if it'll need another one if it goes into sleep mode...
On the plus side, it could be a great cost-effective method of overclocking.
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
Are you ottistic?
Will it be Palladium complient?
No, he's a Deltec. When the power goes out, he starts up an inverter and keeps the lights on for you.
Just don't ask where you plug in the cords.
somehow i don't think this one will last very long. Judging from how my coffee pot looks and how my computer dislikes heat and coffee in no particular combination.
MoRe... LaTeR... -=PJK=-
/. killed my server! The link posted by Bluesnews and HardOCP stressed the server to the max as it was. When /. posted a link it was all over. Time to move to a dedicated server instead of a shared one. I needed to do it a few months ago but was holding off. The site should be back up tomorrow afternoon.
Can you hook it up to the internet via an Ethernet network and have it share coffee with other, similar machines, and can you give it a Bluetooth connection so it pours you a cup when you enter the room?
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of the guy who invented the toaster that connects to the Internet, downloads the weather information for your zipcode, and burns a corresponding graphic onto your toast. Like, if it's going to be sunny, it'll burn a cheery little sun in your toast. It even burns the high and low temperature on. Cool, huh! :)
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. --Ford Prefect
I got this error when clicking the reference link:
...Slashdot effect?
Warning: Failed opening '/home/pimprig/public_html/sections.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in Unknown on line 0
My site (PimpRig.com) is currently down. The /. flood killed my current hosting solution and the site is migrating to a dedicated server.
would be crappy espresso. It takes at least 20-30 seconds to brew a proper cup of espresso....
We had to get a dedicated server due to all the traffic, but the Caffeene machine is back up. I dind't make it and I don't have the time at the moment to read all these messages,m but a few things I noticed: 1) watercooling was considered and may possibly be added 2) I am working on writing an app that could be put in the task scheduler to brew 3) he is already working on CM 2.0 making expresso well, now that the site is back up come on over and check it out at http://www.pimprig.com (few of us are Black teen ghetto-punks, despite the name ;-))