oh man. 2 of my favorite things in harmony, robotics and booze. I said harmony cause have ever try to do soldering while drunk? not pretty…

Posted at 5:22 pm on Feb 26th, 2007 by Pill

This is genius, looks professional as well.

Posted at 5:37 pm on Feb 26th, 2007 by Jack

My design was more of a pneumatic cannon, the original prototype only shot 3 feet. Lack of time, funds, and ambition prevented the building of the second version. John’s Beer Launcher is everything Eliot and I aspired to build but just never did. Yes, this is Eliot mechanical engineering friend. My hat is off to you John.

Posted at 5:42 pm on Feb 26th, 2007 by FROSTY

Wow, the accuracy / repeatability of this thing is amazing! I have to admit though, I would have to retrofit this with a different ammunition than Miller Sprite! Here’s a great start: http://www.queencitychapter.com/microcans/

Posted at 7:13 pm on Feb 26th, 2007 by keystoneclimber

That’s a pretty sweet design all right, but Miller Lite? God, even my poor university buds drank OV or 50.. even Black Label or Crystal before they’d touch Miller Lite…

Posted at 8:23 am on Feb 27th, 2007 by akmixdown

Ummm…this is really cool, but don’t you end up wearing the beer once you open it?

Posted at 1:23 pm on Feb 28th, 2007 by Project Darkness

Very impressive. Wonder if there’s a bottle version out there. I’m thinking a direct mod of this for bottles would have center of mass issues due to so many different shapes and sizes though.
Maybe a pneumatic launcher for plastic 20ozs… for those premixed jack and cokes.

Posted at 12:16 am on Mar 1st, 2007 by Dens

I don’t really drink beer but that machine would be pretty cool if it dispensed soda.

Posted at 3:01 pm on Mar 1st, 2007 by Funny Beer Commercials

I’m guessing it would work for soda; beer cans are 12 ozs, no? Overall a very cool hack. It’s the kind of parlor trick that you can show off to all your friends but doesn’t have a ton of use, like trick shot pool or card tricks :P i give this one a huge thumbs-up though.

glad to see our astute students of Duke are putting their time to good use

Posted at 12:47 pm on Mar 2nd, 2007 by tophiannan

fake

Posted at 7:38 pm on Mar 2nd, 2007 by the truth

Add Mountain Dew and it’s perfect.

Posted at 10:43 pm on Mar 3rd, 2007 by Neozuki

Hello

PLC is the solution!

Is it possible to obtain the design blueprints for this “Launcher” (kudos given) so I could input design variations??
I am thinking “bar codes” (customization) for every bash that you might hold. for a given night (or day) you can “enable” guests to receive “refreshments” wherever they era on your premises!… think outside the tree trunk!!
… remember 3 flys in our beer is OK!

Cheers, max

Posted at 7:12 am on Apr 25th, 2007 by max