Drunken robots

Street performance in front of the flea market next to the Mauer Park in Berlin.

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This is a funny little robot I made out of some junk HDD and CD-ROM Drives I had at home.
I wanted to add some gunshots effects, but my software could not add what I wanted, it messed-up
Everything. Still hoping to learn Adobe products to add any effect I want to

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This robot's name is Drinky.
He drinks really well!

On Christmas in 2012, I drank Soju (Korean alcohol) alone because I had no girl friend at that time. Drinking alone was definitely terrible!! so I couldn't drink anymore.
Lastly, I put an extra glass in front of me and poured Soju into it. And then, I cheered by myself with the glass of Soju, as though there was someone in front of me.

Surprisingly, after that, the taste became totally to be changed!!!!!! WOW!!!

So, I could finally find the secret of taste of alcohol totally depends on existence of partner.

This is why I made this robot.

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Intae Hwang
SAIC MFA Show Spring 2014

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Percy - the hung over robot. by Clive Doherty
Clive Doherty is an artist and engineer who works in a variety of materials to create kinetic and often functional pieces. He believes that art is intrinsic to and idea or concept and that beauty cannot exist without purpose.

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Drinky 2 : The younger sister of Drinky 1

Drinky 1 , the very first robot which can drink alcohol, costs a lot of money. Also it has a complicating technical structure so that people cannot make it easily. However, I think you can try to make this drinking robot with reasonable price from now on.

Actually, This is a robot for my wife because she cannot drink Korean alcohol Soju. But I like to drink the Soju with Korean BBQ at home.

As I mentioned, in the first video, the taste of alcohol depends on person who I am with.

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Thank you to my twitch follower Shaladron for the idea to hold the stronger motor in place with a rubber band!

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This worked out pretty much the way I thought it would.
Got some red wine on my wallpapers. All in the name of science, I guess.

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When AI goes wrong...

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So here is my second type of drinking robot. This one is based on a vintage toy called Jocko the drinking Monkey. You can find youtube videos of vintage jocko toys. Here is one for example.
https://youtu.be/dGl4b2Jb7-4
The nice thing about this design is the liquid does get dumped in the mouth and the tube required is only about 30mm long.
My type 1 drinking robot used a long tube to move the water from the cup back to the bottle. It can be seen here.
https://youtu.be/W7b-0KttDG8
If this is something you might like to build then help get this video 100 LIKES and 100 new subscribers. right now there is 1.6k subs.

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