Slot machine serves drinks instead of money
Spin out completely
Say hello to the BarBot, which combines alcohol and gambling to form what could be a seriously addictive bit of kit. Instead of winning money, users are rewarded with a cocktail. Things could get messy.
The BarBot won a hacking competition called "Take on the Machine", sponsored by Vimby and Scion. It started life as a decommissioned slot machine sold on Craigslist, which a team from hacking collective NYC Resistor decorated with a Fear and Loathing theme and programmed to pump out drinks, Popular Science reports.
When a winning combination is reached, the computer sends ingredients and proportions to a microcontroller that acts as the barman, directing liquids through nozzles to finish the drink. An LED display then lets the winner know what's been made, accompanied by lines from Fear and Loathing.
"As your attorney, I advise you to spin".
The three wheels are programmed to stop only on mixes you'd traditionally find in a cocktail bar, so as fun and potentially disgusting as it could be, you won't end up creating a Bloody Wallbanger, or a Moscow Screwdriver, for example.
Still, in the hands of the wrong people - namely British teenagers - this machine could be lethal.
The BarBot cost $3000 to create and took 320 hours. For more details on the Take on the Machine competition and the five entries, including a Wallace and Gromit style breakfast setup, check out the video on Vimby. ®
COMMENTS
A title no less...
I WANT ONE!!
To add a really crazy slant on it, you could try to guess which cocktail it'll make and if you get it wrong, the forfeit is to drink the cocktail with a tequila chaser.
If you get it right, it's 2 tequilas!
A slot machine, and Fear & Loathing?
Of course it's the bleeding 70s, dude.
Gaaaaaah!
Same here!
Ready for a group order?
PS : Can this machine mix the "One Flight in PARIS" ? :)
Is it just me
Or does it remind you of an IV additive mixing machine ?
All in the marketing...
"Mixed-drink randomization device with entertaining interface." Seriously, there is no ability to win money. You pull the lever, wheels turn, you get a mixed drink that you paid some amount guaranteed to turn a profit based on the weighted average of the possible drinks to be dispensed. How this is any different from telling the bartender "surprise me" in outcome is the one-price for any drink. That's it.
Paris for stuff we'd liketo surprise.
