[Armin] and his crew at BerkelaarMRT were contacted by the Museum of Communication in The Hague to see if they could build a coffee machine that was operated only by voice. It sounded like an interesting challenge, so they took on the job and came up with a very awesome interactive coffee machine.
The interactive coffee machine is based on a coffee maker made by Animo with the ability to make cappuccino, espresso, or just a straight coffee. The electronics are based on a Motorola Xoom 10″ tablet with an Electric Sheep module from Sparkfun. This, along with a custom-made PCB with optocouplers, to allow the buttons on the coffee maker to be electronically activated.
When anyone walks up to the coffee machine, a Maxbotix sonar module detects their presence and a small animated coffee cup asks what they’d like to drink. The cute little cup then prepares the drink and waits for its next human.
There’s a video of the machine in action available below. it’s in Dutch, but anyone will be able to get the jist of how the animated coffee machine operates.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfagE_WMGKA&w=580]
I for one welcome our new coffee overlords.
Is it coffee day ?
is there a day that’s NOT coffee day?!
:-D
Is it coffee day today?
dutch people and coffee
i love the joke. “strabge the call it a coffee machine, it produces tee”
Thanks hackaday, I really like the Fry ;)
My coffee machine has a serial port
I never connected to it, just tried now since it’s “coffee day”.
No sign of life in hyperterminal, at neither 9600, or 115k (8,n,1)
It’s a Jura Impressa S9. Anyone know the proprietary protocol to talk to it?
It’s currently working, so no emergency……
http://www.techno-mix.jura.com/home_techno-mix_x/service_support/download_manual_mdb_interface_deutsch.pdf
From page 9 it’s in English.
Are you sure it’s really a serial port? mayhaps it’s just a proprietary interface with a DB/E-9 connector that is used for RS-232?
http://coffeegeek.com/forums/espresso/machines/57186
Additional info here.