[mfaust] wakes up in the morning like a regular person, goes to work like a regular person, types in tedious commands for his software versioning utilities like a regular person, and then, as a reward, gets his coffee, just like rest of us. However, what if there was a way to shorten the steps, bringing us all closer to the wonderful coffee step, without all those inconvenient delays? Well, global industry is trying its best to blot out the sun, so mornings are covered there. [Elon Musk’s] thinktank proposed the hyperloop, which should help with the second step. [mfaust] built a control station for his versioning software. Raise your cup of joe high for this man’s innovative spirit.
He first laid out all the buttons, LED lights, and knobs he’d like on a panel to automate away his daily tasks. Using photoshop he ended up with a nice template. He laminated it to the top of a regular project box and did his best to drill holes in the right places without a workshop at his command. It’s pretty good looking!
Since this is the sort of thing an Arduino is best at he, in a mere two tries, wired everything up in such a way that it would all cram into the box. With everything blinking satisfactorily and all the buttons showing up on the serial out, he was ready for the final step.
Being a proficient and prolific enough developer to need a control panel in the first place, like a sort of software DJ, he wrote a nice interface for it all. The Arduino sits and waits for serial input while occasionally spitting out a packet of data describing its switch status. A Java daemon runs in the background of his computer. When the right bits are witnessed, a very nicely executed on screen display reports on the progress of his various scripts.
Now he can arrive at the hyperloop terminal during the appropriate work time slot in Earth’s perpetual night. After which he simply walks up to his computer, flips a few switches, glances quickly at the display for verification, and goes to drink some nice, hydroponically grown, coffee. Just like the rest of us.
why do people think its cool to be dependant on coffee. its a recurring theme in your culture and I just don’t get it.
It’s years of conditioning and marketing work that made having an addiction cool.
Coffee made right is like gourmet chocolate or fine wine.
And then there’s office sludge, which is only good for getting through the day.
I suppose every culture has there own strange eating/drinking habits.
But you wouldn’t eat gourmet chocolate or drink fine wine three times a day, every day, would you?
Lol :D
Maybe only twice a day.
By three you mean 10~20 times a day, right? Btw, yes, I am brasilian!!
I caught at your minimal caffeine intake.
If chocolate had negligible calories, you wouldn’t be able to tear me away!
If I had the money? Hell yea!
this. 1000x this.
I disagree with your first point, while well made coffee is nice and certainly enjoyable every now and then, it isn’t anything super special. I agree with you regarding workplace slop, that stuff is undrinkable. Sadly, the country I live in, every cup of coffee regardless of the fanciness of the place is workplace slop :(
You must be in Britain.
+1
Same here. It helps to restore the energy you destroyed by always drinking coffee in the first place. You’re just getting up to the same level as people that don’t drink coffee at all.
Have you ever had coffee?
Easy caffeine pusher, we know your tricks, that you’re sneaking it into alcohol now so that even kids will try it..
https://s.graphiq.com/sites/default/files/984/media/images/Kahlua_Original_1_408019_i0.png
It probably started as somewhat of a joke and escalated from there into “Man I’m so addicted, LOL”.
I think for most people coffee is the chance to take a break, socialise a bit, stretch the legs and drink something they enjoy the taste of. Same as for any break really.
As a very successful man once said “There is no use trying to explain to the ones that just won’t understand” and since you admit to falling into the latter category (in this subject) I think the question will remain unanswered to your satisfaction.
Y u dependant on oxygen, freak
everyone enjoys their particular addictions, be it coffee, cocaine, cannabis or facebook, it might indeed be why they are addicted.
I know right, if only we could only decouple the receptors in the brain….. …. …. then trigger them direct with an electronic device 500 times a second.
Coffee is not the only programming fluid, some code monkeys may like coke and mountain dew also …
https://youtu.be/5W_wd9Qf0IE
Or Tab, I curse my faulty memory and lack of edit, should have played it again before posting.
I hadn’t seen this version of CM before, I like it!
It’s one of my top two favorite AMVs, the other one is.. https://youtu.be/cTIcOmqH1Pg
Not many that are even half so well edited from really well matched sources.
Since you have been here a while (or a paid partisan of the anti-caffeine lobby), it only seems prudent to point out you really meant to say “our culture”, didn’t you?
Well HAD has a culture and it’s not the best at times. In reality most actual ‘cultures’ are still geo-located.
No, I consider myself above you. And by you I mean humanity.
Because most people are overworked and tired in our culture.
More sophistication required, drink tea instead :D
I often drink tea, because it is often cheaper than coffee, and doesn’t taste as bad…
I love how Douglas Adams described the beverage in HGTTG that is not like tea.
If coffee tastes bad you’re doing it wrong. Try coldbrew. A word of warning though, it’s got more kick than jetfuel.
Coffee rules. But there are limits, too much late in the day and sleep is impaired. So I am too whacked to do anything useful and can’t sleep either, that sucks.
Isn’t this the definition of a programmer: Transforms coffee into code?
scnr
Well pizza too if you want it supportable and commented.
Mind if i answer that? After all, i just bought the doubleshot.tech domain name. See, for some of us it may be about addiction or taste, but for others its an ingrained part of our work routine that first started in a college dorm or our bedroom at home.
Knowledge isn’t easy to come by. Info is, but knowledge is information that we’ve processed and understand. It takes time and effort and many attempts to get things right before we finally possess that vaunted knowledge. It takes countless exhausted hours of research and study and practice.
So while we may have started at a desk, or on the floor, poring over data sheets and arduino’s, terminals and project boxes, for many of us a cup of coffee would be our constant companion.
And i’m sure there are plenty of people, like me, who sit silently at their desk watching a program compile, reveling in a decent cup of coffee and remembering fondly all the hard work that payed off.
Or, you know, continuous integration…
He must be I good developer to get coffee.
I am still on peanuts and looking forward to getting promoted to bananas. I’ve already grown a beard.
What a terrible article.
Please enlighten us!
what would you have done differently? Perhaps a laser cut panel? maybe switched to a more common usb type?
Coffee? Hyperloop Terminal? What exactly does this do for us unwashed? I agree. Terrible article.
This entire article and comment stream reads like one whole inside joke.
He’s going to be the guy who fcuks up the build as soon as he gets the slightest sniff of a merge conflict, isn’t he?
Actually no. Even if I get a merge conflict, the push won’t be executed. I’m not sure if I’m gonna need the push switch anyway but we’ll see.
This needs hardware?!
I have to admit that I was thinking the same thing, but I do like to have buttons, knobs and switches.
It’s a good hack.
Steam punks be like… “I repurposed a discarded railroad signal box for MS office macros…”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Leverframe.jpg
Of course somebody had to go one further and do a hardware breakout of all EMACS commands…
https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/hms-alliance-gosport-gaguges-martime-photographic.jpg
This is hilarious, best laugh I’ve had all week.
This whole post-apocalyptic spin on GIT and modern life is pretty disgusting though. I can’t imagine why this git control panel would be needed, or even useful — but the best projects on hackaday are the ones that are insane,
ridiculous, and useless, so boogie on dude!
Nice Orange clone, I would have liked to see it done with tubes though.
http://www.barryrudolph.com/newtoys/toys7/graphics/orangeampthunder30.gif
I was gonna say the same thing, looks like the Orange Amp graphics
Buttons, switches, lights, orange and black, I thought it was built by Data General.
Either way, a late 60s early 70s refugee, DEC did a lot of orange stripes too.
Looks a bit old, design from the 50’s or something. I would have;liked something more this age.
Although.. you could also see it a one of NK’s new nuclear launch controls I suppose.
Next time, look up plans for a DIY drill press / holder / thingy for your handheld drill. That way your volcano lights will be perfectly aligned.
Not with hardware store drill bits, damn things will pull a mm off center.