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Linux-Based Bar-Monkey
An anonymous reader writes "The Bar-Monkey is a bar built around a 486 running linux that can dispense an 8 ounce mixed drink in under 10 seconds. It uses a Matrix Orbital Serial LCD panel with a keypad built into the bar surface for user input. Three Harvey Mudd College students built the bar in their spare time last semester. The bar holds 16 ingredients with which it can currently mix 188 drinks stored in its drink database. Total project cost: $235."
Pfff, they did this in Short Circuit way back in the 80's.
And THOSE things had lasers, fix you right, mate!
Hell, it's even cheaper than some versions of Windows, and it pours liquor!
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When I grow up, I want to be a kid again.
a beowlfu clstr of theeeeeeeeeeesse
*hic*
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Dispenses 16 bottles of liquor for $235? Even if the hardware was free, I don't think I'd be drinking anything that came out of this "monkey."
Wondeful.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
what a breakthrough :D finally, something we all can use.
looks like the bar is smoking...
this was the very first slashdotted bartender...
"You want some more?"
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Apparently the Bar Monkey is serving Harvey Mudd's web site as well...
All Your Memory Are Belong To Java
"Barmonkey.."
bleep bloop
"Tea, Earl Grey, Hot."
Trolling is a art,
Can it make a Flaming Homer..
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." Dark Helmet - Spaceballs
Does it require a designated driver?
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
Using an unreliable battery-operated device to replace a pad and paper to store names and addresses? Nope.
Making our lives miserable and giving us the attention span of hyperactive gnats by making us always available for harassment via telemarketers, pages, e-mails, and instant messages? Nope.
Giving us carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis just to move a cursor around the screen or pilot Mario around? Nah.
Making it so our kids can't use a paper library or fix their own spelling errors? No way...
Making it so the documents and esigns we spend our lives writing and creating have a recoverable life span less than a tenth that of the lowest-grade _paper_ available? Not even close...
Mixing a perfect gin and tonic? Now THAT'S technology!!!
it doesn't have a web server built in then we could /. it and keep people from getting there drinks. Maybe a fight would break out and spread to the street. A few bystanders get involved and we have the first /riot.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
Right, let's get some of these out of the way
- Can it mix a flaming Homer?
- To add a new drink do you need to recompile the kernal
- Can you get KPeanuts?
- It'd do it in 9 seconds if it ran Gnome
- To get ice do you have to type MixScotch -ice
- Ah, but will it listen to how bad your day was. "Barmonkey? yeah Windows 98 crashed again"
Hmm, that's probably all of the non technical posts for this story.
... Does that include the drinks?
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Wasn't that the guy Captain Kirk condemned to live w/a bunch of robot replicas of his wife?
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
TEN Seconds? For crying out loud! That is an eternity when my glass is empty! Human bartenders are much quicker, well after I get them properly trained.
Then again, this thing might be a lot faster with draft Fosters only, rather than having all of thos other confusing ingrediants mucking things up.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
16^2-16 = 240. Where'd the rest of them go? :-)
Now imagine if you will, a Linux powered lunch counter cook...
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Oh, wait, it's already been predicted. Nevermind.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If you beowulf them do you get an AA meeting?
My
Limekiller
1 can of Mountain Dew
2 shots Finlandia vodka
splash of triple-sec
twist of lime
straw for networking
Serve with ice.
Made this up as a joke at an ACM party back in college (we had a "Windows" too, but it was horrible and weak), but the Linux continues to be a favorite of mine.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
You have to sign-up for an AdultCheck(TM) ID before you can get an account.
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Only problem of course is soon coke will be sending out viruses that turn all the pepsi formulas into shit so people migrate away from pepsi. Or something like that...
Until we figure out a way to make a distributed system of these so that my Bar-Monkey can use someone else's liquor, I'm not interested.
... The tri-lambs and the Alpha Betas can live together in harmony!
..does that mean the drinks are "Free?"
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
...of a machine at my university:
"The Stochastic Bartender"
Basically, it's a modified slotmachine, where instead of the three cherries, bananas and apples, there is a type of hard liquor, one liqueur and one mixer.
Drinks from The Stochastic Bartender cost half, on one condition - you only get to pull that lever once.
I'm telling you - that devil piece of machinery can come up with some truly repulsive shit:
4cl Bäska Droppar ("Bitter Drops", Swedish vodka spiced with wormwood, this stuff makes you feel like a man)
Blue Curacao
Grapefruite juice
Haven't you heard the motto: Avoid Drinking and Driving - get drunk at home.
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
"Make me a Pangalactic Gargleblaster!"
(bar Monkey: "Fizzle Pop POOF" halon goes off.. etc)
Seriously.. all I need is one of these, a large funnel, my T-3 cranial and a really good thought-robotic typey arm program and life will be GRAND!
Maeryk
Feminine Protection? What is that? A chartreuse flame thrower?
Windows would incorporate Drinking Rights Management to ensure kiddies are only served root beer.
Before each drink request, imbibers of legal age must slide their driver's license through a slot for verification, along with the card of a preauthorized designated driver (even for home use). Remember to make each successive drink request with the same glass you used for your first request, or nefarious activity will be suspected and the tap will shut down, forcing you to call Microsoft for a reactivation code.
So now you can punch the monkey, and it gives you a drink.
And if you are two drunk to punch the monkey, you need to go home.....
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
Can it handle a Big Gulp Gin and Tonic?
and brings a monkey along with him. The bartender notices the monkey stealing martini olives, sticking them up his butt and then eating them.
The bartender asks the man "What the hell is wrong with your monkey?"
To which the man replies "He ate a cue-ball last week. Now he measures everything before he eats it."
After about 3 drinks this machine will be useless. Who's going to remember a 5-digit, hex PIN.
At least it's not voice recognition, then I'd be in BIG trouble.
I'ddd liiikke an Aba..laamba Slaammmer plleease.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
Bar-Monkey .Net. In three years and two name changes, it will be able to do the same thing for $2,500, but it will require a Pentium 5 processor and 4 GB of RAM. It will have to be upgraded every three years.
"Honest, Your Honor, it was hackers who got me drunk. I only ordered orange juice."
Table-ized A.I.
Ah! Found the agreement...
This Drink Mixing and Consuming Agreement (DMCA) is between Microsoft Corporation (known hereon as The Company) and yourself (known hereon as The Consumer).
The Consumer agrees that all recipes and formulations for any and all potables known by The MS-BarMonkey and any and all future additions to the drink library are the property of The Company.
The Consumer agrees that The Consumer will not attempt formulating these consumables without the use of the MS-BarMonkey.
The Consumer agrees that The Company may revoke this license at any time at which time The Consumer will pour all liquor and mix in their abode down the drain.
The Consumer will not share these drink formulations with outside parties as they are The Company's trade secrets.
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Trolling is a art,
Imagine a drunken guy named Beowulf lying face down by a cluster of these...
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
"It seems like you're trying to get hammered. Would you like to make your next drink a double?"
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
Port Eliza to it, and it'll listen to your problems as well.
Lately democracy seems to be based on the skybox, the Happy Meal box, the X-box, and the idiot box.
When I was in college, a friend related a story from when he was in high school. He thoroughly cleaned out his windshield washer system (pump, reservoir, tubing, etc) and ran the tubing to a nozzle under the dash. He then filled the reservoir with alcohol , and was able to make his own mixed drinks while road-tripping. He even hooked up a reversible pump so if he ever got pulled over, he could just suck the drink back into the reservoir!
:) )
(yeah I know, DISGUSTING. and STUPID too!! but he was in high school, so he was young & stupid by definition
Anyway, his "system" worked great until one day when his dad used the car & the windshield was dirty.......
What I wanna know is if it can make a pangalactic gargleblaster.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
This still doesn't make sense, because even a green Linux admin is going to cost you more than 4 full-time bartenders easily.
No machine can run without maintenance forever.
Hmmm, that's entirely up to the owner of the machine but your ideas will show up in the WindowBar that Bill Gates will make. It will be advertised for three years, on the market in five years, cost four times as much, give you advice you don't want, report all this info back to Microsoft, then cut you off when your license runs out. Have you seen the clippy animation where he flips you off and calls you a weenie? You will.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
"we were overbudget by $85"
Wonder how that happened...
"Beta Testing"
Nevermind...
select name, phone from users where sex='F' and drunk=True and approximate_weight=Whatever you like
- In Capitalist America, law violates YOU!
you could always use your 1337 |-|4X0RiN6 Z|<i11Z to get free drinks! because after all, drinks want to be free!
Free as in mason.