Pancake-making robot is awesome, made out of LEGOs

By: Jennifer Bergen
From: http://www.geek.com/

Breakfast is a special meal for many of us. Sometimes we take the time to make a nice meal with eggs, bacon, French toast, or (and?) pancakes. But before we know it that Sunday morning meal is a lot of work. Problem solved! Inventor Miguel Valenzuela designed a robot that not only makes pancakes, but it makes them whatever shape you want.

As if the idea of a pancake-making robot wasn’t cool enough, the Pancake Bot (PB) is made of 99% LEGO and 1% ketchup bottle. Yes, the nerdiness factor just skyrocketed through the roof. Valenzuela goes into some pretty technical detail on his blog about how he made the robot. For example, he used a pneumatic pump and compressed air to dispense the batter. The manner in which the batter will be dispensed is pre-programmed with coordinates, so you can chose to make various shapes. The photo below shows some pretty good-looking Mickey Mouse flapjacks.



The PB is similar in some ways to the Solar Sinter, a 3D printer that we reported on earlier this month that creates objects out of sand. Both devices move smoothly on a track to produce a final product. In this particular case, the track leads a ketchup bottle full of batter down the length of the griddle, dispensing as it goes.

It’s slightly sluggish, so if you want to make some quick pancakes, you’re most likely better off just spooning the batter yourself. But a speedy breakfast is obviously not the point of the PB.

Valenzuela’s daughters Maia and Lily helped and are credited as “assistants” on the project. We’re not sure what part the young girls had in the making of the PB, but we have a feeling it may have something to do with the eating part. Judging by Valenzuela’s blog, being his kid seems pretty awesome. Not only does he create pancake-making LEGO machines, but he also builds awesome snow sculptures of Tauntauns, AT-ATs, and a humongous, awesome looking robot.

Make sure to check out how the Pancake Bot works, oggle over his awesome snow sculptures (scroll down), and watch the PB in action in the video below.


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'B****, your pancakes look fine to me': Video of catfight over maple syrup in Denny's goes viral

By Mark Duell
From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

It’s hard to believe that a fight this bad could erupt when the only thing she asked for was some maple syrup for her pancakes.

A mass brawl ensued when one girl asked another table if they could have some syrup, and got the response: ‘B****, your pancakes look fine to me’.
The fight started in a Denny's restaurant in Chicopee, Massachusetts, when one group of girls did not have enough maple syrup.

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One girl starts hitting another after a disagreement over pancake maple syrup...

...before she knocks her to the floor and continues the Massachusetts attack

Two girls begin to have a stand-up argument and another gets involved
while one of them approaches a filming camera and says ‘YouTube it'.
The video, posted on YouTube by viral group BuzzFeed, shows one girl in a
white shirt and black trousers start rapidly punching another in the
face.

The girl being punched, who is wearing a light blue top and jeans, is then
pushed over to the ground and her black underwear is partially exposed.
As she gets up, another girl in a blue stripy top and jeans is pushed
over by the same girl who started punching the first victim.

While the fight happens, some people run out of the way, others clap and
everyone else watches in disbelief as a chef comes up and tries to
break up the fight before sending out one of the girls.

Calm down: A Denny's chef comes up to the girls in an attempt to break up the fight in Chicopee after another is pushed over onto her seat

Since the video went viral, police have said the brawl started following an argument that allegedly stemmed from a traffic incident in the car park outside the restaurant.

Captain Steven Muise told The Republican that the fight began after one man punched another in the head. The men were accompanied by the three women in the video.

The incident comes just one month after two other videos of female brawls were posted on YouTube.
Police in South Carolina asked for the public to help

identify people involved in a brawl inside an International House of
Pancakes restaurant in Orangeburg in January.

And an all-female brawl outside a Florida gas station was also caught on
video last month, as some of the women had their clothes and hair
extensions ripped off.

Fight videos are becoming increasingly common on YouTube, although
they are often taken down soon after being posted if they infringe the
website’s usage policy.

Watch the YouTube video here

1969 LSD induced IHOP commercial

The producers of this IHOP commercial from 1969 must have been on drugs...psychoactive drugs. After seeing this you will feel the way they did when they made it.

The Automatic Pancake Machine: 200 Pancakes Per Hour--Is it Enough?

By Gendy Alimurung

Every now and then, technology does not screw us over. This machine pops out pancakes at a rate of 200 pancakes per hour. Two. Hundred. Pancakes. Per hour. You want one, and you want to lie beneath it and let the pancakes fall off their little conveyor belt directly into your mouth.

This costs $3,500 and is the size of a countertop microwave. The company, Seattle-based ChefStack, says the possibilities are "infinite." They suggest traditional three-cake stacks, savory sausage-filled pancakes, and the imaginative "folded sleeve" pancake. Plus, if ever a hole ruptures in the time space continuum and the only way to fill it is with hot, steamy pancakes, we are set.

ChefStack

Infinite Breakfast

Ketchup Bottle as Pancake Batter Dispenser

A clever way to repurpose an everyday item.

Original purpose: Flavoring Mom's meat loaf.
Aha! use: Portioning pancake batter with precision―and without the usual mess of transferring batter from the bowl. Squeeze out baby-size or plate-size rounds, or add Mickey Mouse ears to a batch of silver dollars.
Reward: Restaurant-worthy flapjacks.