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Beer Brewing Bender Completed
An anonymous reader writes "The Beer Brewing Bender Project is finally completed. This is a fan built, full sized Bender from Futurama featuring a 6502 CPU powered brain to make him speak triggered by a prop remote control straight out of the show. Inside his body is a beer fermenter used to brew up a batch of real Benderbrau beer!"
And I thought _I_ was a Futurama fan. I will never make that clame again.
Aslo: where can I buy me one of these?
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
Scene: Citihall: Mayor's Office. A pizza slice splats against the window.
Poopenmeyer: It's time to take action. [He presses the intercom.] Stephanie, cancel the maid for today. Have her come tomorrow. [He leans back into his chair.] Well, I'm out of ideas. Anyone?
Farnsworth: Wait! If we could build an object the exact size, density and consistency of the garbage ball, it might just knock the ball away without smashing it to bits.
Leela: But where can we find a substance the exact density and consistency as garbage?
Farnsworth: Alas, I don't know.
Fry: Uh, what about garbage?
Farnsworth: Good Lord! A second ball of garbage! That just might work!
Poopenmeyer: But garbage isn't something you just find lying in the streets of Manhattan. This city's been garbage-free for 500 years!
Fry: Then it's time to make some more.
Poopenmeyer: Make garbage? But how?
Fry: Stand back and watch the master! This Slurm can. [He knocks it on the floor.] Now it's garbage. These papers. [He sweeps them off the desk with his hands.] Garbage. This picture of your wife. [He drops it on the floor and the frame smashes.] Pure garbage. Now you try it.
Poopenmeyer picks up a pencil and drops it on the floor.
Poopenmeyer: By God, I think the boy's got something. Come on, everyone! The fate of the city is at stake!
He turns a chair on its side.
Fry: Good! [He turns to Leela.] Don't finish that cruller, throw it away [Leela throws it on the floor.] Bender. Drink that beer and drop the bottle on the ground. [Bender throws the bottle on the floor.] Very nice.
Poopenmeyer: Get that robot some more beer! [Bender smiles.]
"Bite my not-so-shiny fiberglass-on-cardboard-and-quilt-insulation-over-a-wood-frame ass."
Kudos on a truly awesome job! Looks great =)
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If the beer can be brewed within 30 minutes (including commerical breaks), sign me up for a few.
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0.
Also, because of what they made it out of, if there's ever a problem with the beer Bender can smoke too! Is that a tap in the front for the beer? Cuz if it is it's placement is very... poor...
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
I can't think of a possibly more dangerous situation, LOL!
I'd hand out cigars, but there's what...1.1 million of you?
I love reading projects like this one. I've got to wonder about how one lives in New Zealand to be able to find time to build this beer-brewing Bender.
I wish I was versatile enough to know how to wire up a 6502-based audio board w/wireless remote AND do the basic carpentry AND the fiberglass and painting AND brew beer. He's even got an arc-welder, as seen in his video of him destroying his HP printer (link on the last page of TFA)
Hell, my wife wishes I knew how to change a washer in the bathroom faucet.
You are welcome on my lawn.
...before it gets 'dotted.
Coral here!
.. beer tap!
Gives new meaning to a head of beer.
I'm a perfectionist but I'm trying to cut back.
That is the best looking Bender I've ever seen! Very, very well done!
I'll build my own beer-brewing-bender! With blackjack! and hookers! wait, forget about the beer-brewing-bender....
Can I be the first "Bender fan-boys" post, "yeah but does it run Linux," post and "we built plenty of these back in the day" post all at once?
Now, if someone will just make a cryro-freezer and order a pizza, my life will be complete!
"but doesn't it run linux?"
I'm just guessing here, but wouldn't Benders preferred OS is Olde Fortran.
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
Am I the only one who read the summary as stating this thing having 6502 CPUs as a brain?
/me gets more coffee...
Aside from welcoming our new shiny-metal-ass-and-overpowered-brain-overlords I was rather stunned how you could cram that amount of chips into something less than the size of a small home...
He's got a stomach full of candy, and an ass made by Tandy.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
...I have to ask that age old question: Will it bend?
for a minute there, i lost myself...
...triggered by a prop remote control straight out of the show.
WTF??? Futurama is a cartoon. Everything is either bits in a computer or ink on paper. There are no props.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
The pervert posted logic circuity on page 2. Someone should aks him to take it down.
Apparently that link has been ./ Here's a link to the same story CLICK HERE
If you look on the shed wall behind Bender's head in the group of beauty shots at the bottom of Page 3 you'll see a New Jersey license plate.
I wondered where that went. Good thing I have another one on the front of the car.
If Bender in the show was equipped with a brew station in his torso... That'd be a perpetual motion machine I wouldn't want to witness.
Fry,"Whatcha doin Bender?" Bender,"Drinkin my own fluids."
God spoke to me.
Wouldn't that make Bender close cousins with both the NES and Atari 2600?
I used to brew some beer myself and the home kit the guy is using makes for pisspoor beer. And also beer from plastic bottles!!! blasphemy
You want to be using real ingredients not the beersyrup this guy uses. Real barley and hops. Most small breweries also sell to individuals.
Heat the barley in a pan with sufficient water (as in how much beer you want) and look up a schematic for the heating. Essentially this means heating your mixture to a designated temperature and keeping it there for a period of time. Different temperatures make the barley release different sugars. there are different temperature schemes. Experiment with a few you can really see the difference.
Add half your hops at the beginning and the other half halfway trough the heating process
Then strain your beer a few times until it has the desired clarity (can be influenced by the type of barley)and cool the mixture down so the yeast survives when you add it. It is good practice to activate your yeast before adding
The beerbender does use a handy fermenting vat. These are actually quite cheap. Keep the beer for at least 1 week at around 24 degrees celsius
The botteling is next. If you like beer you surely have some glass beer bottles. Buy a bottlecapper and some caps. Again really cheap.
You can use sugar drops to get the CO2 in the bottle but about 2-4 grams of plain sugar also works. I like using some honey as it can be tasted later.But an absolute winner is the brown caster sugar
cap the bottles with the sugar and again wait for minimally 2 weeks at 24 degrees before consuming
this way you can vary your beer way more than using some kit. You can experiment with different barley,hops,heating schemes,yeasts,storing times,straining and sugars.
Watch it, hops can get way out of hand really quickly. They can take over a yard in short order.
No shiny metal ass to bite! Fiberglass is heresy!here
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This guy is the king of geek cool, not only did he build a full-size Bender but he has a MAME'd Tardis! I wonder what the speech came out like (I'm surprised a bare CPU can output audio).
We need to see if he is also capable of surviving a Stop'n'Drop brand suicide booth when accompanied by the average Old New Yorker.
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Check out the rest of his site - he built a real jet engine, and the asciimation thing is incredible!
Don't forget, this is the guy that created the jet-powered beer cooler as discussed way back when.
While his server hasn't become a smoking ruin, check out his TARDIS MAME console.
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
My complete and total envy over this project or the fact I noticed the Tardis MAME cabinet in the pictures on page 3.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum. - O'Toole's Corollary
I hope you keep those clear Corona bottles in the dark.
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Midwest Supplies will sell you kits ranging from the basics, doing your fermentation in a plastic bucket, up to 42-gallon stainless steel fermenters costing thousands of dollars. I personally am somewhat of a high-end novice brewer, so I don't do kegging and I haven't made a lager yet, and I am just starting to put together the equipment to do all-grain brewing (instead of using malt extract, which makes a very nice beer but lacks some of the DIY feeling that we all get out of writing our own compilers and malting our own barley from our own local granaries).
One thing you should definitely do is pick up a copy of The Complete Joy of Homebrewing, in any edition (I believe the Third is on shelves presently. It's in paperback and the guy has been brewing beer since the days of the PDP-10.)
Here's the process and equipment that went into my last batch of ale, a nut-brown:
Note that I put my finishing sugar into the whole batch instead of into each bottle. This ensures consistency from bottle to bottle and reduces the number of opportunities to introduce the beer to an unsanitary environment.
It's a simple process and you can get all the equipment you need for $80 and all the ingredients for a 5-gallon batch of beer for less than the cost of buying 5 gallons of Bud Light. The results will usually be good and there is truly no end to the tweaking you can engage in to make your beer. Pretty much everyo
Well, he did sit on the stove to brew the beer, so that's some of the energy input. The other energy input is in the starch. But I'm just wrecking the fun. Honestly, I'd prefer he just be a beer cooler, peltier powered. If he were to geek it up, he could make it a dispenser or something.
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
I always thought that the T800 was a Transputer.
The 6502 sucks. The Z80 blows it away any day!
Stick Men
All the skills you need for anything like this are easy to learn or look up in Make.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Will it be an ale or a lager?
I hope it's a lager so I can take it to a ball game.
No sig for you!!
Hell this was reported about back in june- july of last year!! thats 6 months or so ago.. Nothing new here, move along.. move along...
I was reading about his Tardis MAME thing: ... and I soon had Win2k back on the box."
;-)
"Anyway, Linux didn't last long
Maybe a few opinions of his supergeekdom will change based on that line alone!
PS New Zealand is the greatest country in the world.
Couldn't stand the weather
Will it serve Slurm, too?
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
As I was reading/flipping through the project, I was thinking that this is the sort of stuff that gets done in the sheds of New Zealanders. I looked at the address and behold.
Another such project
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ (I see now on the same website)
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From the article about building the TARDIS:
"It was about this time I was out with a girl I knew having a drink in a little bar in town. I was staring out the window and thinking about how I could make my own cabinet."
Yep, the guy is a true-blue, 100% signed up member of the geek community! Fair play.