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Next time you walk over to your coffee maker to turn it on jut imagine the time you could have saved if you had a Internet Enabled Coffee Machine. 
“The goal of our implementation was to make the machine useable in both standalone and Internet connected modes. This means breaking into the push buttons and interfacing with the status LED. However the PCB within the machine floats at MAINS voltages. This is a potentially dangerous situation therefore one of the prime interfacing tasks is to create a totally electrically isolated inteface. We achieve this using opto isolators. Just before boxing the machine up, we made some final interfacing tests. The most important test is isolation where we checked that the optoisolators were indeed correctly connected and that there would be no electrical connection between the WebBrick and the coffee machine.”
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September 12th, 2007
Damn! It would seem my brilliant idea has been taken… ah well, I guess this’ll just save some time for my projects then…
September 12th, 2007
Yeah, good idea, but I would like to see someone make the espresso machine version that also dumps it’s own grounds. Now THAT would be spectacular!
September 12th, 2007
Internet coffee. lol
September 12th, 2007
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September 12th, 2007
Hehehe… I could use one of these! :p Life just keeps on getting easier doesn’t it?
September 12th, 2007
i wants one.
September 12th, 2007
HAHAHAA imagine one of these at an internet cafe. where you go to there site and buy coffee online!
September 13th, 2007
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September 13th, 2007
I’m looking forward to more electronic appliance advancements like this.
September 14th, 2007
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September 14th, 2007
LOL, I would definitely love to have one of these here! I think anyone that uses the computer as much as I do would!
September 15th, 2007
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September 17th, 2007
Instant Coffee at the click of a mouse.
October 3rd, 2007
My co-worker and I (both computer technicians) made one of these three or four months ago.
The design was not as clean. We used a CD-ROM tray’s PCB, and wired the eject button to the power button on the coffee maker. Using one of the small exhaust port holes to trail the wires out of, we had the computer sitting beside the coffee-maker, and could use the Windows “Right-Click -> Eject” feature over a remote desktop connection to power on the pot.
We turned it on one night at my apartment, went to work and then had some coffee already made. IT pwnt. Sitting in the back room now though, buried underneath a bunch of other little frankensteins ..
October 3rd, 2007
Hi Ryan,
Sounds like my kind of project.
Got any pictures?
October 3rd, 2007
I don’t believe we took any that night, but we could set it back up.
November 29th, 2007
internet cafes will never be the same…
February 11th, 2008
is it sold in a packed zip, with or with out jar?
April 1st, 2008
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