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An Open Source Coffee Machine

Posted by timothy on from the quite-entirely-unlike-tea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Coffee Machine [video link] is a recycled coffee machine, controlled by a PC running Beremiz, and using some MicroMod CANopen I/O nodes from Peak-System. This machine have been prepared by Peak-System and Lolitech for SCS-Paris-08 exhibition. It served free coffee during four days at Peak-System's booth, and has been donated to IUT of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, so that students can have fun practicing automation."

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  1. Gratis by rlp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free as in coffee?

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  2. Huh by illumastorm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought a open source coffee maker would be running on Java

    1. Re:Huh by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, and imagine a beowulf cluster of those! I'd be up for months!

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    2. Re:Huh by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "No..but, I did notice that those were awfully small cups of coffee...small cups that weren't even very full."

      It's open source, you can change that.;-)

    3. Re:Huh by dubbreak · · Score: 2, Funny

      Imagine Natalie Portman on a beowulf cluster of those.

      She'd be naked, petrified and trembling!

      Now all they need to do is design an open source hot grits machine to compliment it.

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  3. LoLi by AkaKaryuu · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think editing the name of LoLiTech would be beneficial for such people who read that as "Loli-tech".

    I for one was extremely confused.

    1. Re:LoLi by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thanks for the NSFW tag there. Much appreciated. Now when I'm asked why I was checking out that page on wikipedia, I'll have to explain what slashdot is, what an open source coffee maker is, what a lolcat is, and what icanhascheezburger.com is to justify why I went there on company time. Should be fun.

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    2. Re:LoLi by idontgno · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oodaloop's boss's boss: This is relevant to my interests.

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  4. Why? by Jabbrwokk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really, why? It's simple. Open machine. Put in coffee and water. Flip switch. Wait. Enjoy. Why build a convoluted contraption to do something so simple? I know that's not the slashdot way, but c'mon. What's next? An open-source potato peeler that allows you root access to your root vegetables?

    1. Re:Why? by jpyeck · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is the Killer-App we've been waiting for to justify IPv6!

  5. Re:Firewalled by shivamib · · Score: 4, Funny

    So would someone with access to the site please tell me what I'm missing? Thanks.

    TFA is a video showing an attempt at building a Nutrimatic dispenser to produce a cup of coffea. Instead, it invariably produces a concotion that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee.

    Not really my cup of tea.

  6. That's one heck of a feedback loop... by gillbates · · Score: 3, Funny

    A machine which automatically makes coffee, which powers the programmers who write the code for a machine which automatically makes coffee...

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  7. Not truly open source by sunderland56 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cue the FSF complaining about the beans being proprietary in 3... 2... 1...

  8. Will it be compliant to the rfc? by bigredradio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt

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  9. For Some Reason... by jlf278 · · Score: 2, Funny

    my mod for brewing better hot coffee has already been downloaded over 1 million times

  10. Recycled coffee? by operagost · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Recycled coffee?" Where I come from, that's called "pee pee."

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