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Linux-powered Mobile Cocktail Mixer
weissi writes "You remember the slashdot.org story Linux-based Bar-Monkey? We found it pretty cool, but it has/had problems: definitely too big, and no plans and no source were available. That's why we decided to build our own Linux powered mobile cocktail mixer. Enjoy it..."
...when you're drunk. ;)
Get drunk after you build it, rather than before. Nasty accidents happen involving drinking and hacking.
That's is truly geektacular and dorkariffic. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. How long before we see cheap versions on Thinkgeek?
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Are they made when the penguin sheds tears, like in the Bug's Bunny cartoon????
I want one of these in my car.
Vodka Martini, please, Bender, and shaken, not stirred.
Great... drunk kernel hackers... I wonder what this will do to Linux security...
Or is it patched for margaritas with crushed ice and salt???
Mmmm, open source is good... burp!
Man will the ladies be impressed if I bring one of these bad boys to a party... where can I get one? I'll just build it myself! They'll be extra impressed.
My Ass hurts.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! Mmmmm, happy drinking! :)
will it be able to wget more booze when it runs out?
As usual it takes some germans to get it right.
Since it does run on Linux...does that mean the drinks are on the house?
Ah yes, I remember the days of Linux version 9.
Good old version 9.
See, that's your problem. You should have been using something newer, like version 1,213,437,523.02. That version is much more mature.
The original bar monkey only cost $235 dollars to build, this mixer costs for 400 euro or $480 or so US.
From the pictures of the mobile cocktail mixer, while it is smaller then the bar monkey, I still wouldn't call it "mobile". It's 15 inches * 27 inches * 15 inches. Looks to be built using a large toolbox and mentions 14 pumps so probably heavy.
Nice idea, but still needs improvement.
Sure.. but where are the pictures??
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Are there no pics, or am I just blind? I don't really think that I could judge an electronic drink mixer without seeing it in action.
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The original Bar Monkey had source available. See: http://www.barmonkey.net/files
You mean you want the water from boiled leaves, with the excretion from a bovine's mammary gland and some sucrose crystals dissolved in it?
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I find it a bit odd that in all the pix on the so-called construction page, not one of them shows a closeup of the pumps or any containers for the ingredients.
Methings we've been trolled.
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So do am I supposed to have gallon drums of vodka, rum, tequila, etc that connect to the 14 pumps? I'm kind of curious how that part works.
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Ugh. Obv-troll, but to combat FUD I would like to point out that there is, in fact, no violation here. Source need not accompany bins. A promise of source disclosure fulfills term 3 part (b) of the GPL. They don't even need to disclose the source until someone requests it, and then they don't need to make it available online -- they could ship it on CD or floppy if they were so inclined.
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We need a module :Talk to inebirated customers to make this machine perfect.
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In a machine this old the Liquor to CPU bus will be a serious bottleneck.
"We are all 17/18 years old and still go to school." If only I could have been 17 and 18 and got to build a mixed drink machine with the parental unit's ok.
From the sourceforge page :
Punica is a selfbuilt, Linux powered drink mixer.
Apparently, this machine was able to build itself. I see that recursive compilation appears to have taken a step up in the world.
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Actually, there was an open source soda (OpenCola) once upon a time, but it was a marketing tool and the source has since disappeared. I had a pdf of it at some point.
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drunk admins will move on to harder stuff, using snort and even crack to improve security.
Microsoft has released a drink-mixing package for Windows compatible machines. It cards you every time you try to use it, and calls the cops if it determines you are underage. It only works half the time, and often gets set back by viruses, but you don't need to $699 to SCO to license it.
I'm certain the original troll was referring to this line on their site. Most source(MixIt, the software mixing everying together) is available at http://mixit.sourceforge.net, the rest will be release[d] as soon as possible
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
"The first bombshell to hit my project was that my client found out from another consultant that the GNU community has close ties to former communist leaders. Furthermore, he found out that the 'x' in Linux was a tribute to the former Communist philosopher, Karl Marx, whose name also ends in 'x'"
Ah, that's what it stands for. Maybe we should call it Liner, no- Hitler's name ends with an 'r'. Or Lineo, rats- I forgot about Castro. What a load of tripe.
I read "Linux-powered Molitov Cocktail Mixer" and thought it would be something fun to play with!
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think /. just got taken for quite an amusing ride.
Just give it a few weeks for someone to come out with a GPLed cola drink.
There's already OpenCola, whose main website appears down, but description here
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And it would of course taste almost, but not quite, completely unlike a Long Island Iced Tea :)
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I don't know where you could put the thing, but I think it would be funny to see this turned into something like one of those coffee dispenser machines you'd find in an employee's break room or a student lounge...
That would make it an *incredible* machine. Also, someone could start a very good buisness selling these things if they had those features. Think of it, an ACTUAL way to "#3 PROFIT!!" from slashdot. Aren't I generous giving it away.
Liberty.
Our own Punica-device is powered by a 40MHz Intel i486 CPU with 16MiB RAM
:)
Main costs:
* computer was sponsored
I sure hope no company went out and bought these guys such a powerful computer in exchange for their name on it.. It might have run them out of business
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Dildo.
With linux's uptime you could use it for months on end.
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I wonder when my car will be Linux powered :)
Less is more !
I prefered the Barmonkey to this by far. This site seems to just link to Barmonkey, say "we liked it but did it different. Please look at us." Barmonkey went into a lot more detail on what parts in specific that they used, took a lot more/better pictures, and the whole shebang looked a lot better (IMO). As far as the source goes, the guy commented and said he'd send the source to anyone who wants it (I jumped on this and do have a copy of the source). This all said, both of the ideas are excellent. Wish I had the time and money to do it myself.
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I tried to make mine with Visual Basic under Windows ME. Now I drink a lot...
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soo what happens when a spark flys off a pump and lands in the Bacardi 151 ?
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Pictures, I want pictures!!! Where are the pictures ? This is slashdot, we can't read !
Which then begs the question...
Can it mix a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, and if so, does it know where you should go to rehabilitate afterwards?
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Hey, gimme a Bloody McBride or a Sex on the Beach!
./ ? Then you should try out a Virgin Melon instead.
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Doesnt this product violate the licensing agreement? I say ignore this guy's closed-source junk, burn his house to the ground, rape his sister, and flip off his cat!
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Theres been a robotic cocktail waitress in London for years, Cynthia had her own bar but is now been bought over by Club Wicked where she sits at the back looking remarkbly like Marvin the Paranoid Android in drag.
-Roy
no, they wrote mixit, which IS available and contains most of the source. The rest if vaporware they promise to make available soon. You can hardly violate the license agreement if you didn't use anyone elses gpl'd code ;)
Boris Vian, in the opening chapter of Foam of the daze (L'Ecume des jours), offers a much more elegant solution to fulfill the same purpose.
Wouldn't someone have a link to to an English version of the text?
I'll try to find one later today, or just copy the French version. Stay tuned...
Assuming this is NOT a story troll as some have asserted, I raise the same question that I did on the previous story:
Are the pumps and hoses they are using food-grade hoses, or are they using windshield wiper pumps like the last guys?
Again, when designing something that handles substances that are going into your body, you need to be VERY careful about what comes into contact with those substances - even more so when what you are handling is composed of two very powerful solvents (water and alcohol).
The chemicals that can leech out of non-food grade stuff are NASTY - as in "Well, we can put you on the list for a new liver, but...."
Yes, food grade pumps and tubes are more expensive than going down to the salvage yard. But a liver transplant or chemotherapy is even MORE expensive!
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And it's even translated into English. So here it goes, from this page:
This other page has a different translation, and other interesting stuff about it all.
If anyone cares to, check out my bar monkey. I built it this summer....it's similar to the original bar monkey with a few asthetic and software changes....scroll down further on the page for a link to pics. http://www.barmonkey.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92
ah what the hell, it's not like I've got anything else to do.
*goes to fetch his pitchfork, torches, studded dildo , chains, and got milk t-shirt*
I'm as a hardline Cold War warrior as the next American, but you either have to be joking or writing agitprop. While it wouldn't surprise me if the Open Source community was riddled with Leftists, you can't seriously believe Linus Torvalds named it Linux because of Marx, and not because of the long line of "nixes" who ended in X. Unix, Xenix, Minix... Unless Microsoft Xenix you think was a Communist front group too.
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Well it can mix anything you want, using 14 different ingredients as long as they are not too thick to run through the pumps(as Baileys is) Btw it mixes extraordinary good cocktails but we still have to have the pressure(inside the bottles) better included because it changes when the amount of the content changes.......that isnt as easy as it might sound.
I don't what much about the computer hardware side of things, but I know Java, and I don't remember anything in the Java or Sun classes that allow you to connect straight to the parallel or printer port.... Did Sun provide the classes or did these guys write their own, because I wouldn't mind being able to interface directly with ports...