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Barista Bot

Client: General Electric

The Barista Bot was created for General Electric’s #BrilliantBrew campaign and debuted in a custom coffee truck in Austin at SxSW in 2013. Barista Bot takes takes your photo and transforms it into a line drawing that it then prints onto the foam of your latte using coffee as ink.∎

 

Selected Press: Fast Company, Engadget, Gizmodo

Credits: Made in a collaboration between Hypersonic Engineering & Design, Rock Paper Robot, and Kyle McDonald.

Source code for this project was written with openFrameworks and is available on GitHub.

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General Electric’s #BrilliantBrew truck at SxSW, 2013

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