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Bartendro Robot Lands On Kickstarter, Wields Raspberry Pi

Posted March 05, 2013 8:15 AM

If you prefer robot bartenders to lack limbs that could be used against you in the impending robopocalypse, Bartendro might be your kind of bot. After two years of building and tweaking, the folks at Party Robotics have finally polished theirRaspberry Pi-powered cocktail-making rig and have posted it to Kickstarter.
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#1 Re: Bartendro Robot Lands On Kickstarter, Wields Raspberry Pi 03/05/2013 9:06 AM
	Is it a good listener because I have a, well set 'em up and we'll have a talk..... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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Doorman Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Yellowstone Valley, in Big Sky Country Posts: 7425 Good Answers: 295	#2 Re: Bartendro Robot Lands On Kickstarter, Wields Raspberry Pi 03/06/2013 10:42 AM
	Yeesh... From what I gather from the article, the device in the image costs $2,500 US bucks. You would sure think that, for that kind of money, it might be a little cleaner, a little more professional. Looks like it was hacked together in a garage. __________________ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
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Mizuti Guru Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: New York Posts: 972 Good Answers: 23	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Bartendro Robot Lands On Kickstarter, Wields Raspberry Pi 03/06/2013 11:02 AM
	I don't see where the costs are coming from, personally. Raspberry Pi costs $25, a peristaltic pump can't be more than $200 (tops, and some savvy shopping could bring that down quite a bit) and there's tubing, containers and some metal framework. I could hop onto Craigslist, get some free scrap metal and weld a more aesthetically pleasing (and probably more functional if I had time to think) frame than what I'm seeing. Maybe the price tag comes with a year supply of liquor, in which case, they might be taking a hit in profits __________________ The first law of thermodynamics is you do NOT talk about thermodynamics.
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Doorman Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Yellowstone Valley, in Big Sky Country Posts: 7425 Good Answers: 295	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Bartendro Robot Lands On Kickstarter, Wields Raspberry Pi 03/06/2013 11:05 AM
	Agreed, I don't see any magic in the mechanism or control. There certainly isn't any gingerbread either! __________________ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
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