Coffee, Please!
A Raspberry Pi can automate many functions, but you still have to walk over to the coffee machine yourself. The Rapiro robot is going to change this. Rapiro's creator Shota Ishiwatari responded to our questions about the project.
Rapiro: The Rasp Pi robot
Lead Image © higyou, 123RF.com
When Shota Ishiwatari (Figure 1) began his Kickstarter campaign this past summer, he did not expect the huge success that resulted. He reached his goal of UK£ 20,000 after just two days. By the time the campaign was over, it had gathered UK£ 75,000.
In a conversation with Raspberry Pi Geek, Ishiwatari says, "I intentionally chose to make the campaign goal not too high in order to increase the probability of achieving the goal. Given the worldwide attention, the amount that I originally envisioned was surpassed by far. Even so, we will need every single pound of the amount actually achieved to finance production costs." Just what was it that made the Kickstarter participants so enthusiastic?
On the web page for the campaign [1], a picture shows the small humanoid robot performing various activities with its diverse joints and servo motors (Figure 2). Ishiwatari christened the model Rapiro, an abbreviation for Raspberry Pi Robot because the robot uses a Raspberry Pi for a brain.
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