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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. Caffine-Related Tech by lobiusmoop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reminds me of the world's first webcam at Cambridge University.

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  2. Re:Firewalled by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are missing me trying to figure out what is open about it. I get Beremiz but the software on the Peak-System doesn't appear to be, at least not all of it. I think maybe the firmware for the IO modules is but I'm not positive.

    As for the machine itself, it is more along the lines of a commercial coffee vending machine. Touch a screeen to, I assume, pick the drink you want, and a PC, via IO boards, starts and stops the appropriate field devices to fill the cup.

    It would be nice to see some openness come to industrial level automation. Allen Bradley needs to be punished for charging people $200 for a null modem cable.

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  3. Well... by Timosch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...does it support HTCPCP?