Pancake Lego Robot: Makes The Geekiest Pancakes

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33 points·Tichy··7 comments

Here's the maker's description of how it works: http://makermig.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-pancake-bot-works.h...

Manually entering motor coordinates seems a little low-level to me. If I had that hardware, I'd love to make a visual pancake design UI for it.

Would you actually? I think most people would be surprised by how much money exists at the intersection of crafts+tech. I know a company that added a thin software layer to off the shelf hardware and built a $500MM business on that. If you want to know more shoot me an email.

Along the lines of pancake art, this site is amazing:

http://www.jimspancakes.com/

This guy hand makes them all, but it would be cool to see the technology in this post applied to a similarly creative endeavor.

Vat of pancake batter + z axis actuator + laser on the gantry = 3D pancakes

Lego Mindstorms is a fantastic platform for exploring robotics. This project seems to have to used Python, which ends up giving you an easy way to control your creations!

Technically, it is possible to hook Mindstorms with ROS (robot os). I tried but got stuck at some point. Anyone managed to get it working?

I wonder if there is a good way to hook it up with this: http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_br...

These guys handle the daily pancake rush for the Iowa Ragbrai. They easily handle thousands of pancakes every morning. http://www.chriscakes.com/Video.htm

I know it's not robotics, but the process is unbelievably efficient -- and fun.

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