In yet another episode of living the life you wish you had, last Friday I extracted myself from the RoBunker and went to witness The Head Rotor and Al Honig, world famous artists, show off Chassis the beer pouring robot.
Ky00t, thy name is Chassis:
Chassis is a remote control/potentially autonomous drink delivering machine. He's outfitted with all sort of things that go "whir" and "blink" and is equipped with a nice pressurized pony keg system for beer or wine or kool-aid or what have you.
Here are Al and The Rotor conferring over some fine point of mechanical artistic theory. Or maybe they are just inspecting the drip pan for leaks.
Here's Chassis posing in the wonderland that is Al's gallery space. You can see from whence he gets his dashing good looks. Chassis is made of several found items and a few things from McMaster-Carr. The red powder coating makes him extra special. Where his headlamp might be is a microphone, and the chrome grill beneath his turn signals is a speaker for audience interaction.
The operator can be outfitted with a headset and cordless phone transmitter along with the remote control (in this case a controller from the system formerly known as Vex) to make Chassis say hello, heckle, complain, offer prurient robot bartender advice, and let you know when your slip is showing.
There were quite a few visitors coming round to investigate Chassis' progress (and drink beer), including the delightsome $teven Ra$pa and Marcia Crosby.
Uncle Flash-O-Matic also stopped by to wish Chassis well and drop off some more junk from the dump (the dump in San Francisco is a freaking treasure trove of joy and wonder for artists of all stripes, it really deserves its own post). Flash is known as the human weather pattern, and will (we hope) be making an appearance at RoboGames with the 240cc V-8 Blender this year. He's all right for a Harvard man.
On the left is The Rotor offering a rare smile. You're so serious, Rotor.There will be more pix and video of Chassis soon!
This entry was originally posted at Suicide Bots on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 9:11 pm.
