Hacker tea (was Re: Late Nights and Caffeine)

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Aug 17 07:39:00 1999

Would it brew tea? That might be a useful little thing. There's an
online coffee pot somewhere in England. Strange no one has yet automated
a water closet or something.

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, LordTyran wrote:

> > I haven't yet figured out how to work a PIC into my tea habit, though.
> >
> > Eric "will program for iced tea" Smith
> >
> Ahh, I was waiting for someone to bring this up.
>
> As stupid/crazy/cool as it seems, there is a Linux-Coffeemaker-HOWTO.
> Tells you how to use an SCR or a relay to hook up your coffee makes to
> your parallel port, add a /dev/coffeemaker entry (basically a ln to
> /dev/parX) and add a cron daemon entry to make your coffee each morning.
>
> Scary, eh?
>
> Kevin
>
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
              
              - Ovid
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