We here at Hackaday are big fans of useless machines, there's something certainly amusing about watching a gadget fail dramatically without actually making any progress toward a certain goal. But what happens when one of these meme machines works too well? we think it's right Here's What We'll Be Seeing With Tacobot [Vije Miller],
On the surface, building an elaborate robotic contraption to (slowly) produce tacos is frankly ridiculous. Doubt when you deal with the need to give it voice commands like it's some kind of one-dish version star trek Meal replica. The whole thing seems like the setup for a joke, a notion that only gets stronger after watching the dramatic video on the break. But in the end, we still can't get over how well the thing works.
Later [Vije] As it delivers a list of ingredients to be delivered, a robotic arm drops a tortilla onto a hypothetically articulated rotating platform that can not only rotate and move in two dimensions, but the soft shell in the appropriate taco configuration. can make. The empty shell is then brought under a revolving dispenser that dispenses (or at least attempts to) the requested ingredients, such as beef, onions, cheese, and lettuce. With the final flourish, it pumps out a few pumps of the selected sauce, and then presents the complete taco to the user.
The machine's ability to remove only certain ingredients appears to be a failure. Ground beef crumbles without a problem, but it clearly struggles with wet foods like tomatoes and onions. We only know that if a robot handed us a taco with that little lettuce on it, we'd have a problem. on project page [Vije] acknowledges the issue, and says a redesigned dispenser could help alleviate some of the problem.
The issue immediately brought to mind a fascinating series of posts. Dedicated to handling bulk materials we write [Anne Ogborn], While the application here may be a bit tongue-in-cheek, it's a perfect example of the interesting phenomena that you run into when trying to measure different types of materials.
thanks for doing [Fiona] for the tip.
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