The Kegbot - Man’s New Best Friend

I’d just like to say that geeks and beer do in fact mix, and quite well at that. At DEF CON 13 last week, Team Kegbot unveiled their creation, a Linux powered beer keg. Simply, it is a beer dispenser that keeps track of who you are and how much you have drank, among other interesting statistics. Fabulous!

This reminds me of a simple program my roommate and I wrote in college. It was very similar in function of the Kegbot, outside of the actual dispensing mechanism. An X10 wireless remote would execute a C/C++ program that would manage the statslog, depending on what key was pressed. Simple, but effective for what we needed.