COFFEE-HOWTO
One of the most memorable comments about software I have ever heard, is whether this or that can make coffee. Coffee is a world commodity that is second only to oil. Linux DOES make coffee. And it tastes good, as well!
For a long time, humanity was wondering how could a computer make coffee... People need coffee wake up and stay awake in front of the computer for a long time. Everyone knows that coding is better at night...
The main problem is how to manage the coffee machine with the computer, so that it will be controlled by software. This generally means an ON/OFF switch implemented as a circuit which controls the coffee-machine's power supply.
This HOWTO has turned out in a public project, look at
http://coffee.sourceforge.net/,
Popular coffee among programmers because doesn't need a lot of care; like commercial software. Its exciting taste has inspired thousands of programmers in writing incredible software, written in the very first ours of a day. Windows for example was written at 5:00 o'clock in the morning, Due to coffee! A result is guaranteed.
Nescafe is a rather strong coffee, made by pouring hot water
in a mixture of coffee, sugar and some water. You usually take 1 spoon of coffee and 1 spoon of sugar with just a bit of water, to mix it. In the meantime you should have the water boiling. As soon as the water is hot enough, you mix them all together and preferably add milk. Although you can use something simpler than a coffee-machine to boil the water, I have seen this done many times...
A popular variation of the above mentioned coffee. Actually, it doesn't need a coffee-machine, rather a refrigerator for cold water and ice-cubes.
This is a difficult one, read coffee-faq (see references)
Espresso is a very strong, italian sort of coffee. You serve it in small cups (You ask why? See chapter: Overdose Symptomes) with on or to pieces of lump sugar. To produce a good espresso you need fresh grinded coffee beans, water, lump sugar and a special machine. These machines boil the water and press the very hot steam through the grinded coffee beans. You can buy a super-duper-automatic machine for a lot of money. But a low cost machine is useable, too.
OK., lets start. Fill water in your machine. Let it become hot. In the meantime fill about 1 teespoon of coffeepowder in the filterhandle of your machine. Press the coffeepowder down. Not too much. Now the water is at the right temperature. Attach the filterhandle to the machine and let the machine work. After about 30 seconds you can serve a delicate, hot espresso. It is fine after a good meal. You feel good and can code for a few more hours.
(See also chapter: Espresso) If you have a more profi-like machine, you can use it, to froth milk with it. You need this feature to make a creamy sort of coffee. It is easy to prepare. Put some frothed milk in a coffee pot and fill it up with espresso. Then decorade with some chokolade flakes. That?s it.
A general diagram is like this:
--------- 0-5V --------- 220V ---------------- | PC |===>===|Circuit|========|Coffee-Machine| --------- --------- ----------------
The concept is that we take a controling voltage from the computer, which drives an electrically isolated circuit with a Relay or Triac.
You must choose a Relay circuit, if you have a coffee-machine greater than 200W. You can use a triac-based one if your coffee machine isn't high power.
All circuits presented are tested, but the results are YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. If you have no experience with electronics you should NOT try these, otherwise you may get a bad one...
You should be very careful while experimenting with 220V, and using an appropriate fuse is advisable.
Here is a simple example to get a voltage 0-5V from the parallel port of the computer.
Back View ----- Pin 10 - ACK Male DB-25 | | Pin 9 - D7 Connector | | Pin 2 - D0 v v v Pin 1 - Strobe / \ \ 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 / \ / \ 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 / \__/
Pin 1 is Strobe (inverse logic)
Pins 2-9 is DATA BUS's signals, exactly what was written to the parallel port's latches with an OUTB command.
Pin 10 is the acknowledge signal (ACK), controlled by you, so that you can produce an interrupt to the CPU.
Pins 18-25 are short-circuited and this is the ground (GND).
In detail:
<= in DB25 Cent Name of Reg > out pin pin Signal Bit Function Notes ------ ---- ---- -------- --- ----------------------------- > 1 1 -Strobe C0- Set Low pulse >0.5 us to send > 2 2 Data 0 D0 Set to least significant data > 3 3 Data 1 D1 ... > 4 4 Data 2 D2 ... => 5 5 Data 3 D3 ... => 6 6 Data 4 D4 ... => 7 7 Data 5 D5 ... => 8 8 Data 6 D6 ... => 9 9 Data 7 D7 Set to most significant data < 10 10 -Ack S6+ IRQ Low Pulse 5 uS, after accept < 11 11 +Busy S7- High for Busy/Offline/Error < 12 12 +!PaperEnd? S5+ High for out of paper < 13 13 +!SelectIn? S4+ High for printer selected => 14 14 -!AutoFd? C1- Set Low to autofeed one line < 15 32 -Error S3+ Low for Error/Offline/!PaperEnd? => 16 31 -Init C2+ Set Low pulse > 50uS to init => 17 36 -Select C3- Set Low to select printer == 18-25 19-30, Ground
The simplest circuit that one can build is:
Vcc |
| | Relay /^\ Diode 1N4002 Coil /---\ | |
| | / 4.7K B |/ C parallel port >-\/\/\/\/---| NPN Transistor: BC547A or 2N2222A data pi |\ E | V | parallel port >--------------+ ground pin | Ground
Connect Vcc with the same voltage as the relay type (usually 5 or 12V). Obviously, the relay's specifications should be scaled for your coffee-machine.
Barmen, tend to put the relay AFTER the transistor, at the emitter (E) pin instead of the collector (C) pin. This is bad practice because it biases the transistor badly, and may result in bad coffee :-). Diode 1N4002 is useful to protect the transistor from the relay's currents. If you don't use it the transistor will become dark and smelly...
If you only want a simple circuit, you can use Motorola's triac driver MOC301[012?, together with a general purpose TRIAC like SC141D. This method has the advantage that you don't need an extra power supply.
For non-inductive loads, this is the circuitry:
270 1 +-------+ 6 180
2 | MOC | | TTL in ---------+ 3012 +nc VA SC141D | | 4 / | nc+ +------------/ |
LOAD
If you are going to work with 220V, try to obtain a 3021. Inductive loads should be used in conjuction with bypass capacitors, see Motorola Application Note AN-780. Coffee-machines are mainly resistive loads and not inductive (like a motor), but who knows what yours is!
| 180 180 2.2k
| 1| |6 | | Hot | +=====+ | | MT1 | | MC | TRIAC | +-+ | | 3032| Driver | G | | TRIAC | +=====+ | /| | \ 2| |4 | / +-+ 2N3904 |----+ | | | | MT2 / | +--------- | -------+ | V \ | | | | / | \ | | \ 43 .01u --- 10k / | | / 500V --- \ | | | | / |
| +--------+--+---o o--> 120V / load
-/\/\--| 2N3904
\ V | --- /// You should change resistors accordingly for 220V.
Circuit description:
The MC3032 is an optoisolator TRIAC driver. The 180-ohm resistor sets the current for the LED emitter in the optoisolator. Change the value of this resistor - if necessary - to get a reasonable current (e.g., 15 mA).
Note that you cannot test this circuit without a load. The TRIAC will not switch unless connected to an AC voltage source, so you can't test it for simple switching without applying AC and a load. Note the 500V rating on the .01 cap.
You will have to build an executable that will work like this:
the command ioperm: eg ioperm( BASE, range ,1); *
parallel port, eg outb( 1, BASE ); *
if that time is read by looking at the command line. *
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Change BASE = 0x3bc for /dev/lp0, 0x378 for /dev/lp1, and 0x278 for /dev/lp2, range=8.
It would be useful if you had that program setuid, so that everybody can drink coffee!
Just read kernel hacker's guide, implement a device driver (it could even be user space I think). Please compile it as a module, so that we won't need a kernel compile in every update. Then write:
echo cappuccino >/dev/coffee
And you will have a hot cup of coffee in minutes! Remember to give the right permission to /dev/coffee, depending on whether you want only root making coffee or not.
The advantage of this method is that it supports feedback from the coffee-machine by using the ACK of parallel port, so that smart coffee-machines could produce an interrupt.
Do it as homework.
If you have implemented the C program (see above), you just have to write a simple CGI script to turn ON and OFF the coffee-machine. You should write some nice webpages, explaining how to make coffee, and put them on an apache web server...
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it will support toast, beaf, applepies, etc. *
even when the first one gets off. Of course there will be a perfomance hit. *
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sensors, so that you can control water flow, temperature, coffee quantity etc. *
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http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/alopez-o/caffaq.html
This is most known Internet's Coffee-FAQ
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http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/caff.html
Caffeine and effects of on the Nervous System
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http://www.gardfoods.com/coffee/coffee.coffee.htm
A pretty comprehensive, if informal, history of humans' interaction
with the coffee plant. People have been chewing coffee berries in
Africa for 100,000 years or so. Coffee was definitely growing in
Yemen, where it is not native (so must have been planted), in 525 AD.
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2324.html
RFC2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2325.html
RFC2325: Definitions of Managed Objects for
Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IO-Port-Programming
Programming of I/O ports under popular operating system Linux.
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http://lonestar.texas.net/andrew/f_pc_.htm
A lot of circuits in ASCII. Some of them are for parallel port.
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http://shell.rmi.net/hisys/parport.html
Whatever you wanted to learn about a parallel port and didn't dare to ask.
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http://www.redhat.com:8080/!HyperNews/get/khg.html
How to write your own device drivers. Come on, go ahead!
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http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/parallel_output.html
Tomi Engdahl's web page is a must see for everyone who enjoys electronics.
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http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/ Devices_Connected_to_the_Internet/Coffee_Machines/
Coffee-machines on-line. Unfortunatelly, there are no tests.
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http://www.cs.su.oz.au/bob/coffee.html
This coffee-machine offers only cappuccino. It has to be upgraded.
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http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/janssen/
Hot coffee from Netherlands.
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
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http://www.cs.su.oz.au/bob/Coffee/index.html
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http://www.menet.umn.edu/coffeecam/
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This document was initially written as part of a small debate in the linux-greek-users list , whether linux can make coffee or not. It has been an article in our beautiful online magazine about Linux called magaz. Remember, that magaz is greek it will look like that to you.
My name is Fotis Georgatos and I have also been in the past busy with the greek documentation and wwwpages maintainance. I welcome submissions to this HOWTO, as long as you're not anxious about the changes.
I'm Annie Pinder and a coffee fan. I live in England. I made the language changes on this document. I'm currently in the English equivalent of High School, in my final compulsory year.
The casual copyright with everything you get with linux... To find it, you'll have to read all of HOWTOs and average out the most common. Otherwise, no, you cannot copy it.
As many people corrected, coffee did not originally come from America nor was brought by Christofer Colombus. It was popular in the Middle East long before America was discovered. Still, we can remember Cristobal Colon, as the person who brought tobacco and chocolate in Europe. *
coffee with his Linux box. *
interesting and humorous notes. *
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