Finally you can get your coffee served up just the way you like it... via the internet. Thanks to some caffeine-loving DIY'ers, you can now whip up (or at least serve) a cup of steaming-hot espresso from across the room, or across the Atlantic (though, why would you make a cup of coffee if you won't be able to drink it while it's hot?). Regardless, inspired by Larry Masinter's circa-1998
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and utilizing the O2M8 WebBrick (a controller designed for automation in houses), the gang was able to put together a solution for coffee making that has been heretofore unseen, though (we suspect) desperately needed. Check the link to see all the percolating action unfold.
[Via
Hacked Gadgets]
posted Sep 13th 2007 9:31AM
Now I can order an espresso from starbucks.com
They should have done it to this Porsche Design Nespresso Machine:
http://www.sybarites.org/2006/08/18/nespresso-siemens-by-porsche-design-espresso-machine/
Nice, hope it also does customizable flavours.
"Gawh... This coffee smells like shit."
"It is shit, Austin."
Nice!
...which is extra lame, because you need to insert a coffee capsule into the Nespresso machine, before going back to your computer to activate the brewing.
(Unless you like your tea water with a slight note of coffee...)
Exactly what I was thinking! During my more desperate college days, I tried running a capsule through twice...'twas a sad mistake.
next hack, automated capsule inserter ;)
complete with 10+ magazine :D
"caffeine-loving DIY'ers" LOL, how redundant!
Does it run NetBSD?
JAVA 2.0
Didn't see that one coming. :p
This makes real the joke about tech, "can it make the coffee?"
Next we need an internet connected toilet paper dispenser.
I can see it now, I'm on the metro, a stop away from home and I whip out my iPhone, ordering my coffeemaker to start brewing, and it's ready as soon as I walk in the door.
I've done the same with take-out, why not coffee at home?
Or you could just, you know, buy a coffee maker with a programmable clock and timer built-in so you can tell it to start brewing whenever you like.
They've only been around for years.
It's a real Hot Coffee mod!
good, now you can make your coffee while watching porn.
It's over.
The internet is finished.
This would be really useful to start your coffee via your smartphone or something when you're about 5-10 minutes out from work...
Or, you know, you could buy a $5 x10 module and a $15 computer interface module, then do it all with HEYU. But you know....this is much more fancy.
Today, Ladies and Gentlemen, a new level of pointlessness has been achieved.
The article kind of glosses over the Web Brick Internet appliance that actually drives the device. The Web Brick itself looks very interesting. It would be nice to see some coverage of it and similar control devices with embedded web servers.
this came out of this book so if you want the instructions pick it up:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780596003142&itm=1
yea, I was wondering that also. i have had that book since like forever which tells you how to make this, and this is considered news? wtf?
This is so interesting...not the coffee itself but the internet power, the web enlargement...Where are situated its limits ?