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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. Re:LoLi by Warll · · Score: 1, Informative

    Um, no thats lol-cat, loli, well thats differnt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon

  2. Re:LoLi by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  3. Re:Huh by zeromorph · · Score: 2, Informative

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

    NetBSD, NetBSD - like your toaster...

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  4. Re:Will it be compliant to the rfc? by Verdatum · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, I haven't read this thing in ages, but this protocol is HORRIBLY restrictive. No thought was given to extensibility at all. The coffee pot should really respond to an incoming request responding with a freeform list of supported modifiers, so the client can have processing to resolve compatibility issues. No worry about being restricted a mere 4 types of alcohol or any such silliness. IETF usually comes up with better designed protocols than this...I guess they didn't have enough coffee or something.