DNA Lounge Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge

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76 points·jcr··13 comments

FYI to those unaware: DNA Lounge is run by JWZ/Jamie Zawinski. One of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla, primary author of XEmacs, Xscreensaver, etc. ref: http://www.jwz.org/about.html

See also - The Roboexotica cocktail robots party, which just had its 15th annual party in Vienna:

http://www.roboexotica.org/

(and of course, my entry from 2009, Adult Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kiKE3lif8Q)

Something like that could work really well in a place like Mana Bar (a cocktail bar and video gaming lounge, really just a bar with wall to wall consoles etc.). You could have games that you pay to play, and how well you do = how much alcohol your drink gets. With appropriate warnings and such that could be really fun.

Related: a friend of mine made this a few years ago: http://v2.nl/archive/works/daredroid

ooo pay $45 to work on a project for their marketing stunt! What a deal!!!

I don't understand why the upper comment was downvotted without any explanation, when it's not far from the truth. Even if the people like the event, it's still a marketing stunt similar to hackathons or other competitions.

It's not a constructive comment. It's obvious that it has marketing benefits, and the poster's connotations were that there was something wrong with that, without giving a reason.

It probably cuts down on people signing up for a lark and then not showing up.

Great idea. Terrible moderator (watch the video).

I hope there'll be some lovecraftian mixologist contraption to up the ante a little.

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