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iPhone's Accelerometer Translates Virtual Pour Into Real-World Beer [Thinking And Drinking]
Gizmodo —
The drinkin' tinkerers over at Instructables created the Serv O'Beer to interpret a "pouring" motion with an iPhone into a real, albeit foamy, beer. What an age we live in! Creator "Polymythic" used a Construx building set as his mechanical base and an ioBridge to control the system. It pours the beer a bit violently, just like this previous hack, but if you're drunk enough to insist that tipping your iPhone should result in a real beer, it should do you just fine. [Instructables]
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iPhone - Be a Good Lad and Go Pour Me a Beer
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Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2009/01/03/iphone-be-a-good-lad-and-go-pour-me-a-beer/. This cheered up my Saturday
The drinkin’ tinkerers over at Instructables created the Serv O’Beer to interpret a “pouring” motion with an iPhone into a real, albeit foamy, beer.
Talk about your ’showing off’ sort of apps on the iPhone - having it participate in the pouring of a cold one has got to rank way up there.
Gizmodo’s post has more details on how this was done, and ...
