An Open Source Coffee Machine

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."

Gratis

[rlp]

Free as in coffee?

Huh

[illumastorm]

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

LoLi

[AkaKaryuu]

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.

Re:Huh

[oodaloop]

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

Why?

[Jabbrwokk]

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?

Re:Firewalled

[shivamib]

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.

That's one heck of a feedback loop...

[gillbates]

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

Not truly open source

[sunderland56]

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

Re:LoLi

[jollyreaper]

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.

Will it be compliant to the rfc?

[bigredradio]

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

For Some Reason...

[jlf278]

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

Re:Why?

[jpyeck]

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

Re:LoLi

[idontgno]

Oodaloop's boss's boss [icanhascheezburger.com]: This is relevant to my interests.

Recycled coffee?

[operagost]

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

Re:Huh

[nospam007]

"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.;-)

Re:Huh

[dubbreak]

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.