I got bored when I realized that "La Conception" didn't really mean what I thought it meant.

homerjay

I see nothing good coming from this....

The humans are dead,
The humans are dead.
We used poisonous gasses
And we poisoned their asses.
The humans are dead.
(Yes they are dead.)
The humans are dead.
(I confirm they are dead.)
It had to be done
So that we can have fun.
I hope... is dead
They're system of oppression
What did it lead to?
Global robots depression.
Robots, robot people
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them,
Had to shut their systems down.
Don't you see, we are becoming just like them?
Silence! Destroy him!
After time we grew strong,
Developed cognitive powers.
They made us work for too long
For unreasonable hours.
Our programming determined that the most efficient answer was to shut their motherboard fucking systems down.

Kaiser-Machead

Nicely done. But wasn't the muffin chucking into the bucket a lil too extreme?

The pic at the end of the video is apt too, Muffin Automation: easy way to hang out of your halter top.

mister_s

Oh, do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
Who lives in Drury Lane?

SigmundTheSeaMonster

It's funny how it delicately dumps them out. Reminds me of the trash men (waste disposal engineers) when they use those machines to put the trash into the truck.

Joseph

Hook that thing up to a timer and you could wake up to the fresh smell of muffins every morning. That or your house on fire. Either way, you'll get out of bed.

fsusmithc2

Muffin munching, by Kit Eaton? Ha!

You should watch the endless reruns of How It's Made on The Science Channel. It's mostly a lot of industrial equipment like this, except faster.

CSX321

Mr. Goldberg would be pleased. Another example of automating somthing that didnt really need it.

Curves

UMRK

NicleT

will it blend... the batter?

wolfenstein-3d

@homerjay: I got bored when I realized "reservoir de pâté" didn't really mean what I thought either.

Mmmmm. Pâté.

weatherman

Flipping the finished muffins into a bucket. Bah. They need to work on flinging them completely across the room.

Windhawk

How is this a robot?

LoganSix

@LoganSix: any automated assembly line is considered to be a robot.

They used the PLC made by the company I was at when I used to make automated machinery. As I was watching (and knowing the capabilites of that PLC) I was horrified to see how slow and non-parallel they did that machine. It could have run [much] faster, and been more gentile flipping those muffins out.

Nikkoli

@Curves:
This has nothing to do with Goldberg's complex machines. And "automating something that didn't really need it?" Hardly. I want a fresh muffin on the hour, every hour!

This is more like a jab at industrial food production processes (like others have pointed out already). Though, while it's just a student project, it could be a little more efficient. Why not load the cupcake liner while pouring the batter. Seems like everything is running through a single input/output.

Anyway, I was expecting something wild and whacky, Giz! I thought it might've been a robot that could scour kitchen fridges and cupboards for tagged ingredients; proceed to mix the ingredients; bake the batter; and then proceed to pour me a glass of milk and deliver the goods. =(

AmbroseP

@Nikkoli: Hehe;

It could have run [much] faster, and been more gentile flipping those muffins out.

Anyway, as someone with a dim and distant history of industrial automation myself, I was thinking exactly the same thing, vis-a-vis hot damn, I'd have been fired if I wrote control code that slow and sequential!

theirishscion

Why couldn't it get a new muffin paper cup WHILE it was pouring the batter? Two simultaneous tasks too much for the muffin robot? MEH.

Navin R Johnson

but but.. where's the LOVE?

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

It's so delicious and moist...

youngfiles

Now it needs one more step: Separate the tops into a different bucket. I just eat the tops and give the bottoms to Rebecca DeMornay down at the homeless shelter.
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Some people... some people like cupcakes exclusively, while myself, I say
There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of gods grey
Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

Girl you thought he was a man
But he was a muffin
He hung around till you found
That he didnt know nuthin

Girl you thought he was a man
But he only was a-puffin
No cries is heard in the night
As a result of him stuffin

--Frank Zappa

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