Sure, Red Bull may have gotten a lot of attention by sponsoring Felix Baumgartner’s space dive, but it’s not the only beverage-maker that has made some great accomplishments possible. The Prague-based brewery Staropramen was a sponsor at the recent Webstock 2012 conference, where the folks from Robofun Create showed off this so-called Beer Keyboard built with the brewer’s backing. As you can see, it’s more beer than keyboard, with 40 cans of Staropramen serving as “keys” that just need to be gently pressed to input a letter. To make that actually work, Robofun paired an Arduino board with some capacitive controllers for the base, and connected that to a Raspberry Pi that linked the keyboard to the TV. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the keyboard has since gone missing. Head on past the break for a video.
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