This Breakfast Machine Could Be What’s Next for Home Automation

(Before It's News)

For some, it only exists if it includes mounds of bacon and a steaming stack of syrup-soaked hot cakes. For others, it’s as simple as a bowl of shredded wheat and a handful of blueberries. No matter how you prepare it, though, chances are your first meal of the day isn’t necessarily the most pleasurable meal to prepare when rushing out the door, right?

But what if you could automate the breakfast-making and eating process just like you would automate a coffee maker to wake you up with the sweet smell of caffeine at 6 AM?

In an article for Motherboard last week, Swedish Creative Technologist Simone Giertz recently took on this task of building and documenting what she calls a “Breakfast Machine”: a robotic arm that’s programmed to pour her cereal and milk into a bowl and feed it to her with a spoon. Of course, programming a robotic arm to make precise movements towards one’s mouth isn’t necessarily an afternoon DIY project – and Giertz was up for the task.

“The only catch was that I had to learn how to program a robot arm and code a pretty complicated sequence to have it serve me breakfast,” she explains. “But I was up for the challenge because the best way to avoid real problems is to deal with fake ones.”

Armed with a $339 uArm robot arm, a plastic spoon, a ⅔ empty carton of milk (light enough to lift), and a medium-sized package of low-sugar cereal (to avoid sticky messes), Giertz “choreographed a robot dance” around her morning breakfast routine:

What would your ideal Breakfast Machine look like?

Head over to read Giertz’s full build analysis over at Motherboard.

Read This Breakfast Machine Could Be What’s Next for Home Automation at SolidSmack.

Read more about CAD, product design and related technology at SolidSmack.com

• Origami-inspired GO sheets move in response to light and heat
• Samsung Gear S2 to be available starting November 14 in Philippines
• Engineering microencapsulation of highly catalytic gold nanoclusters for an extreme thermal stability
• Inclusion of Cu 1D Nano-cluster Arrays inside a C3- Symmetric Artificial Oligopeptide via Co-assembly
• Real-time scattered light dark-field microscopic imaging of the dynamic degradation process of sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate
• I am Spartacus! or: Orac applies some Insolence to a rather confused antivaccine blogger [Respectful Insolence]
• END. Clothing Flagship Store – Newcastle
• Direct Coating of Mesoporous Titania on CTAB-capped Gold Nanorods
• Porous Palladium Coated Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles for Ultrasensitive Hydrogen Sensors
• Microplasma-Assisted Rapid Synthesis of Luminescence Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots and Its Application in pH Sensing and Uranium Detection