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!

Comments

I wonder. . .

[oyenstikker]

Does he use the CDROM drives as cup holders?

Re:I wonder. . .

[Oculus Habent]

Sorry about that. Here is a Funcitonal Link.

Re:I wonder. . .

[WoofLu]

Wow .. with that stuff he must be able to heat up coffee really fast :)

Java?

[GothChip]

So does it run Java?

I'll get me coat.

Re:Java?

[ejaw5]

[user@coffeepot]$ java brewcoffee.class
select no. of cups: 4
reg or decaff(1-regular, 2-decaff): 1
{cpu jumps to 100% utilization for 5 minutes to generate heat for the boiler}

Coffee brew complete. Enjoy.

[user@coffeepot]$

RFC compliant?

[sulli]

Unless it's RFC 2324 compliant, I'm not interested.

Re:RFC compliant?

[Schrodinger's Mouse]

But what if it's RFC 2325 compliant?

Coffee

[phunhippy]

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!

Re:Coffee

[JimPooley]

2 greatest inventions... hmmm coffee? I guess a lot of people like coffee.. I find it personally highly revolting and disgusting...

Yes, of course! Everyone knows that Tea is the one true hot beverage!

Re:Coffee

[Tenebrious1]

Well, we drink the "dirty black water" in the mornings to keep us awake since we drank too much of the "pristine water" with "boiled horse feed mixed with fungus and allowed to rot for a week" the night before and didn't get enough sleep.

Re:Coffee

[Patrick13]

Yes, of course! Everyone knows that Tea is the one true hot beverage!

You want the taste of dried leaves in boiled water? ..42..

Re:Coffee

[rmohr02]

2 greatest inventions...

Now if the coffeepot was duct-taped on, he'd have three.

Re:Coffee

[Aerog]

At first, I immediately thought How dare he disparage the great, holy name of Coffee?!?
But then, after thinking about it for a second, I can see where you're coming from. I personally don't like drip coffee. Even the good stuff isn't that good (and the SWILL they serve at the so-called "popular coffee shops" out here? HA!) I'm an espresso man. The thicker the better. Of course, it takes a hardcore caffiene freak to like it straight, but it's the perfect drink to mix with other things. A bit of brown sugar, milk, cream, a double shot of espresso over ice, and you've got the ideal summer drink. Double shot with milk. . .prefect morning drink if you don't have time to make anything else. It's not that I'm just addicted (which I am, and accept that), it's that I really, really like espresso.

So discern when you insult the name of Coffee. Knocking drip stuff is fine, or the crappuccino that they try to pass off at places like Tim Horton's or 7-11. Just be careful about what you say about espresso. It is that good.

He only went halfway.

[Fat Casper]

If he had used a watercooling system as a way to heat the water for the coffee, then I'd be really impressed. As it stands, it's cuter than most box mods, but it doesn't break any ground.

Re:He only went halfway.

[Pig Hogger]

but it doesn't break any ground.

Oh, yes it does. It breaks fresh coffee grounds.

Slash that coffee...

[plaa]

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.)

Re:Slash that coffee...

[HiQ]

Yep, it all came to a grinding halt *rimshot*

Re:Slash that coffee...

[micromoog]

Has everyone already forgotten about the Trojan Room?

Re:Slash that coffee...

[MindStalker]

Good link for picture
http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/22475
Site is not english though.
link

cambridge pot was the first

[johnjones]

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

Re:cambridge pot was the first

[ImaLamer]

The Cambridge is what drew me online.

We got these cool computers at school which had this cool thing called html... then I found things like telnet and wow! (before then I had only used lame AOL at my friends house-it was fun, but not functional)

Then I could finger coke machines and it was great... I knew we had to get on the internet at home! Of course then it didn't take long to browse all Yahoo! had to offer and I was on-line at a blazing 9600 baud.

Connected devices have always been my favorite things, and it's what I've used to this day to get people excited about the internet.

But, I think this is the coolest thing I've seen (text version) besides this.

I was addicted to my garden!

Future enhancements

[dkh2]

• Tap into the water supply in the same way as an automatic ice maker
• End of brewing cycle triggers automatic refill of the reservoire
• Take advantage of the opportunity to water cool your cpu and pre-heat the reservoire. (see Bunn systems that take 2:06 to brew a full pot!)
• integrate a bean hopper and a grinder. Your first task when the next pot is brewed is to change the filter.

Good combination?

[codeButcher]

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....)

if life hands you lemons...

[argStyopa]

...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.

Re:Coffee Howto

[hashinclude]

What about the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - HTCPCP/1.0 ?

great

[tps12]

If they could add a urinal to this, I'd never have to leave my desk.

Achtung!

[mikeboone]

Cool, we can use this to bug Klink's office and hear the result using Voice over IP!

Lawsuit in waiting

[phillymjs]

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

Sadly Gone

[stinkydog]

Unfortunatly, the SD Effect boiled the pot dry and the poor machine exploded. Better luck next time.

SD

With a little additional wiring he could have

[Scratch-O-Matic]

coffee by cronjob.

slashdoted a...

[vrmlknight]

I think we have slashdoted a coffee pot before? maybe this is the first....

Re:Not enough integration, though

[the_real_tigga]

Welcome to the Microsoft(R) Wake!(TM) Coffee Maker Assistant Wizard(TM)!

This Program will help you setting up your next cup of Coffee.
Click "Reply to this" below to continue...

Picture also available at

[DeBaas]

http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/22475

The site is in Dutch, but the picture isn't ;-)

Odd /. effect failure mode...

[Andy Dodd]

I loaded the page halfway once, then my browser crashed.

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 /. effect cause 404s. :)

Picture of the mod

[Anonymous Coward]

Here you can see a non-slashdotted version of the coffee mod :) (picture only): http://athena.tweakers.net/ext/i.dsp/1026131486.jp g

Hacked!

[mrbuckles]

I've already gained roast access to this!
Sorry...

Re:Not enough integration, though

[HiQ]

You forgot to mention that they'd probably require you to have a Passport (Tm) for that

Re:Pic mirror

[corian]

Anyway, here [pimprig.com] is a direct link to the image. You can find a more reliable link (tho the picture is smaller) here [216.239.33.100], just scroll down the page.

You might choose to redefine "more reliable."

SGI Espressigo

[soboroff]

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.

Re:SGI Espressigo

[quigonn]

At the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz/Austria, they used to have lots of SGI machines. One day, they got such an espresso machine for being such a good customer.

Excuse any site problems...

[Andy Dodd]

"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

That has to be the fastest reaction to a slashdotting I've ever seen... /. link, site goes down, 10 minutes later they're moving. :)

New slogan

[cybermace5]

"The best part of booting up is Foldgers in your cup."

Re:New slogan

[sirgoran]

Or maybe, "Maxwell House, Good to the last Byte."

-Goran

Overloaded the shared hosting server looks like

[peterdaly]

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

Re:Overloaded the shared hosting server looks like

[edrugtrader]

72 hours = site is ready, and off front page of slashdot... 21 days later = huge hosting bill in the mail for unneeded dedicated hosting.

Thank god...

[jeff67]

Thanks God it doesn't have a pizza oven and a toilet - I'd never get out of my chair!

ah, spaceballs

[WebMasterJoe]

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.

Re:Not enough integration, though

[LinuxHam]

and charge you an annual fee just for the right to continue brewing coffee with it each year..

Standards Compliance

[Aidenn]

But does it comply with HTCPCP

Which OS and beans does he run?

[Rude Turnip]

So...if this thing runs Windows and brews Starbucks coffee, does that make it twice as evil?

Now...

[Telecommando]

If he can just integrate a urinal into his computer he'll never have to leave his desk.

tech support

[Tenebrious1]

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.

But can it survive in the workplace?

[cybermace5]

I wonder...if doing this to my office box would be grounds for dismissal?

[rimshot]

Re:RFC compliant? (my favorite part)

[satterth]

2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.

This is the best

Coffee Pot?

[bellings]

Uhh, guys? This isn't a coffee pot computer. This is a coffee maker.

I'm not impressed

[GutterBunny]

Yes this guy actually integrated two of the greatest innovations of mankind into one convenient case!

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.

What about the other best invention

[Joel Ironstone]

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!

Already been done . . .

[npsimons]

Bah. This is old news. Haven't these people ever heard of the Coffee HOWTO?

Re:Coffee Howto

[zapfie]

I think my favorite part is:

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.

Re:Not enough integration, though

[Allnighterking]

Oh it will make coffe.... One kind, it will be somewhat weak, the bottom of the cup will on occasion without warning fall off, and in order to replace the bottom of the cup you will have to close all the windows in your computer room exit.... re-enter the room and then it will go back on. Coffee used in this machine must carry with it a signed certificate from Wan Valdez that the coffe is genuine Columbian Coffee. Star Bucks is attaching a EULA that requires you periodically pay them for all cups of coffe previously consumed. Upgrades in the form of new cups of coffee will be required at undisclosed intervals and if you fail to upgrade your bladder may cease to function properly. Your toilet will now require you to enter your Passport ID in order to lift the lid, and any attempt to urinate in a non-M$ approved facility, (Ally, neighbors john etc.) will be considered a breach of this EULA and invoke an immediate visit from the BSA SS troopers to apply the appropriate catheter and confiscate any and all non-M$ approved beans you may have in your house/office.

Re:Not enough integration, though

[Kredal]

That DMCasA scares me... is my Neimann-Marcus(sp?) cookie recipe open source? I paid $300.00 for it, I should have the right to modify the source code to add features that weren't in the original... walnuts, for example. Would I have to pay more money for the Walnut source code?

Sigh, I'm so confused!