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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."
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.
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.
"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.
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?
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.
Remember kids, prior to a thorough slashdotting, always remember to mount a scratch BARMONKEY!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
...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
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."
Yeah, except I don't think I'd get as much thrill out of watching my drunk friend hit on a machine as when he hits on the 40 year old 350lb woman that works at our bar.
Can all fish swim?
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
"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.
"we were overbudget by $85"
Wonder how that happened...
"Beta Testing"
Nevermind...