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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it exists because of RFC2324 hyper text coffee pot control protocol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact, first webcam was a series of updating stills of an actual coffee pot so some engineers would know if there was coffee made.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically, all video is a series of updating stills.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

True, but most streaming media now is a bunch of stills with the changes for each individual frame between them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

True, but webcams still just deliver raw frames (or compressed frames in the case of MJPEG).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With that, plus image recognition, plus a control system, you could use rfc2324 to implement the digital control side

Though I think I'd use weight, temperature, and flow sensors for easier service implementation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

And then plug those values into a image generation service to give users a visually intuitive way to see if there's cooffe or not!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Necessity is the mother of invention