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The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee
WormholeFiend writes "The Javabot is the coffee machine of the future — completely next generation. It is the fully-automated system that runs the Roasting Plant Coffee Company in New York and its design is illustrative of what can be achieved using new thinking and methodologies to something that was previously regarded as a black art. The system is part of the experience because the coffee system runs throughout the shop. It's the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine. Customers can choose from any blend of seven different beans and every aspect of the process is controlled."
...does it run java?
Does it look like this one?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
a machine that drinks coffee, and we can take people out of the equation altogether!
Full color illustration here!
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
If you put computer terminals in there, and little tubes that drip coffee directly into your mouth, some slashdotters would never go home.
Here it is.
Of course it doesn't run Java!
If it did, the coffee machine would need 15 mins to start, require all the beans to be named a certain way, the path to each individual bean type explicitly defined in the CLASSPATH, and would freeze for 20mins doing garbage collection, usually at the most inappropriate time.
Oddly, Steve, I did it first!
You know that Saint Stephen got stoned, right? Now you must face the wrath of the redundant mods! Sorry dude.
-Steve
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
I'm guessing that oral sex is definitely out of the picture for you, then, huh?
Someone should open a store that does this with marijuana instead of coffee. I think total automation so the consumer doesn't have to do anything but suck in the nifty chemical would go even better with potheads than wired coffee addicts who need something to do with their ampup.
Something like this would put Vancouver on the map.
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make install -not war
But does it run Linux?
I'm thinking you could roast some coffee beans on that server right about now.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
...caused its own stampede, when it first went online. The Cambridge Coffeepot was perhaps the most famous webcam - and certainy the most famous coffeepot - on the planet for many years. This proves the neoclassic CaffeGeek Theorum which states that (extreme chaos) = (geek quotient) * (caffeine)^2, or e=gc^2. Einstein was close to discovering this, but falsely assumed that he could use the brain's mass rather than the geek quotient, leading to his incorrect conclusion that e=mc^2.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
It's the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine.
(Big Yawn)
When I can watch my coffee being GROWN via a live 24/7 satellite feed and Juan Valdez personally inspecting my every bean --- THEN I'll truly be impressed...
For all of us who implement those 50-purpose tools into a single interface program, we can finally add our "Make Coffee" button!
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx