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Programmatically Controlled Juicer

Posted by timothy on from the wink-wink-juice-nudge-nudge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Juicer is a wirelessly controlled, programmable juice maker which will mix each ingredient of a recipe to the exact proportions every time. The Juicer will take a recipe selection serially via either the keyboard or the wireless remote and dispense the juices into the cup below. Force and Photo sensors are incorporated to control the precise pouring. Wireless communication is controlled with two microcontrollers operating at a frequency of 433 MHz. All of this is housed by a big red frame custom made from 4130 steel."

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  1. Too mechanical ? by nbharatvarma · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mod me down, but I don't really approve mechanized perfection. Somehow making juice with exact proportions everytime frightens me.. There's got to be a little human in it. Juice may be a small thing now, but as we go on trying to make perfect stuff using machines and not with human hands... Kind of reminds me a little like Stepford's Wives.

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  2. Interface it with the sauce machine by imevil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hervé This (a molecular gastronomer) built a machine which, given the ingredients and a formula, makes the sauce. You can make mayonaise (the formula is H\E) or meringues for example. Of course you have to know the formula.

    http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/2003/burke_ oct03.htm

    "Meanwhile, This is working with the Institut für Micromechanik in Mainz, Germany, on a prototype of a machine that makes dishes from a 'calculus of recipes'." -- The machine exists now.

  3. Re:Wireless Bartender - Only $299 by Mr+Europe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And combine it with a breath analyzer. The machine makes a drink which keeps you steadily at 1.5 o/oo drunk. And makes you wake sober in the morning with limiting the alcohol at late hours.

  4. Re:Seems self defeating. by smchris · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I could see some applications towards commercial places selling "custom juices"

    That's what I thought. There must be about 25-50,000 juice bars in the U.S. They typically seem to have two or three employees. So I figure 25-50,000 machines sold in the U.S. alone if it can knock down one employee per shift.

    What's that worth? Not exactly theoretical science but not such a dumb entrepreneurial student project to laugh at.

    Of course, that's talking about 25-50,000 people who can't even sling juice for a living then, but that's the automation biz, right?

  5. Re:Start Monday Morning off Right... by kootsoop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What you want is "Pipe Dream" http://innovexpo.itee.uq.edu.au/2003/exhibits/s358 144/, a final year engineering project.

    :-)

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    "Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get" - Jerry Avins
  6. Re:Start Monday Morning off Right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No. What you need is this. RoboBar