Sudo Make Me A Sandwich Robot
Feb 27, 2009 Hackers, Robotics, Things Video Podcast, rapid prototyping, thingiverse 54 Comments We all know that life would be better if we could make a sandwich by typing "Sudo Make Me A Sandwich" on the command line of a computer. Adam Cecchetti and I made that dream come to life this last weekend.
This robot was inspired by XKCD, a wonderful webcomic that appears to have some sort of window into my head. I swear I think of things and the next day, there is an XKCD comic about it.
Make sure to check out Adam's photos and his excellent blog called Shadowflux where he's posted his pictures and the code for this robot. Adam took the robot home to Seattle with him and I am optimistic that more sandwiches will be born of this robot and set free into the world.
In order to make it all work, Adam set up an arduino to interface with 2 servos and 2 steppers using the RepRap stepper controllers.
I used QCAD to design some bread and cheese distributing mechanisms and the infrastructure is up on Thingiverse.com.
The toaster oven needed a little modification and a servo controlled flap was put into place with some hinges to make it move slowly. Adam found some pretty special stepper motors with an amazing amount of torque fo.r the flap and the tray controls.
This is one of those robots that I swear is alive. The noises it made were like an animal and it seemed that everytime we looked the other way, it was coming to life and changing things with the setup.
We made the video at NYCResistor and the music for this video is courtesy of Eric Skiff and is licensed Creative Commons on his site, GlitchNYC. Astera provided the public service anouncement for this video. Dehydration and starvation can kill. This video is one of those videos that I think it's important that everyone see. Please submit it to your social networks and use email and digital sharing to let your friends and family know that robots can now make your food for you.
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Reader Comments (54)
THIS.
*nom nom nom nom* ^^
Nothing like starging the day with a great video/sandwich robot thingy. lol
Loved it!
Yep, that's what a sandwich made by a linux box will look like...
One Word.. awesome.. :-)
ha ha ha! very clever!
hmmm, gives me an idea.. I'm off to create an alias command that replaces "sudo" with "biotch"
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Needs bacon, obviously.
Glorious!
Adam - can the robot come with you to CloudCamp Seattle tomorrow? :) Sandwiches in the cloud!
I'm literally in tears at work from laughing so hard.
LOVE the angles from inside the machine on this one guys. Cheese falling on top of the lens FTW! Unconvinced about the intro though - Had you been drinking?!
"sudo make me a sandwich" --> https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Easy, cheap.
It is not pronounced "pseudo", but instead "Sue-Doo", as the command is short for "Super-User Do". Credibility is thereby enhanced. :) Jim
Pretty cool. It clearly needs a straightener mechanism, think a very weak car crusher to square it all out.
The bread really doesn't need to fall that far.
But then the humour would be lost and you'd just have a normal automated cheese toastie making machine.
With this invention, you are one step closer to being Pee-Wee Herman.
I think you might just be onto something here.
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I think maybe he should lay off the sandwich robot and invent the treadmill robot.
I want my 2 minutes back!
I <3 Linux fanboys.
Now if someone could figure out 'sudo write my essay'...
Seconding Jim's comment on the pronunciation, by the way. It's the only thing that brings the video down.
Now try and build the same out of lego :)
very cool!
WOOT SHIRT!!!!
this was the gayest thing ever
just type ./sammich? Relegating XKCD to a shell script wrapper is blasphemy.
Two Words. VERY awesome.