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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. 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?

  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. 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.

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

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

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