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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 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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    3. 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.;-)

    4. 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 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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    2. 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.

      Oodaloop's boss: I am interested in your newsletter concerning those topics and would like to learn more.

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    3. 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!

    2. Re:Why? by ChrisA90278 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's not the home type machine. This looks more like the vending machine that you see in a public place where you put in money and select the type of coffee. the machine dispences a paper cup and then makes one cup of coffee, trea, hot chocolate or whatver.

      The real purpose of the machine is to reach people how to write software that controls machines. it purposly uses some interface that are used on factory floors

      They could have used as a teaching device a machine that bends tubing to make automotive or aircraft parts but then you have to teach the students not only how to program but about tube bending machines. Coffee they already understand so you can get right into teaching programming.

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

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

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  6. 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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  7. Well... by Timosch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...does it support HTCPCP?

  8. 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.

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

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

  11. 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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    1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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