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Trader Vic’s Rum Case

rajbot — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:39:17 +0000

They have a few more in their collection than I do..

Dorkbot sf

flickr — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:46:48 +0000

Dorkbot sf, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

Perfect Lemondrops

rajbot — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:08:25 +0000

I haven’t yet made the perfect lemondrop, but now that I have a tree full of lemons and the recipe for perfect lemonade, maybe I can concoct a perfect lemondrop recipe :)

Paradise Lost

may — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:52:30 +0000

Okay TR crew, given that this year’s themes for the LS party are “tropical, tiki, jungle, safari, pirate, and nautical,” we’d be totally remiss if we didn’t make an appearance in our finest grass skirts.

Presidio Social Club

rajbot — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:59:04 +0000

We went for drinkies at the Presidio Social Club, a 40s-esque art deco bar that opened six months ago. The Presidio is a poor excuse for a national park, but hey, if you are going to sell out your national treasures, you might as well sell out in style!

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.

At the Can’t Fail Cafe…

may — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:12:53 +0000

At the Can’t Fail Cafe in Emeryville there’s a super yummy milkshake made with guinness stout, chocolate ice cream, and espresso. I think they gave it the perfect name.

Tiki Road Trip

may — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:56:08 +0000

What’s summer without a summer read and a little armchair travel. Apparently, this book has it all. Via Drawn…

James Teitelbaum and Santa Monica Press are pleased to announce the June, 2007 release of Tiki Road Trip 2, the follow-up to James Teitelbaum’s hugely successful book, Tiki Road Trip (Santa Monica Press, 2003).

Tiki Road Trip is your best – and only – comprehensive travel guide for those seeking a south seas adventure in the big city, an island escape from the urban jungle, or the location of the nearest metropolitan luau. At 360 pages (compared to 280 in the old edition) and packed with new images, this edition of Tiki Road Trip is a huge leap forward from the previous edition, and is absolutely mandatory summer reading.

Prototyping a Shaker Robot

rajbot — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:16:48 +0000

Dodger came over yesterday with a Vex Robotics kit and we prototyped a Shaker Robot! It’s the first step in making a a fully-robotic tiki bar. We got the robot shaker to kind of shake up a drink, so we declared it sucessful and went to celebrate at Jasmine Tea House with mang and about 20 other people. Yay! Here are some notes for going forward:

The current design calls for dressing up the shaker in a hula skirt and a coconut bra. For this to work well, we need to move the pivot point to the center.
I was thinking about carving a wooden cam for some janky rotation-to-linear translation, but I think using a solenoid might make more sense, because then we can sync the shaker to music!
We need to write some tiki music that our robot can play while shaking up a drink.
We could also make a hula dancer robot that holds the shaker in her hands, but I think for now we should continue with the current plan: dressing up the shaker in a coconut bra.
We got a lot done with our pair-hacking setup. Dodger does all the work, and I take all the credit :)

Photos from Dorkbot

rajbot — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:14:59 +0000

I gave a short and silly opendork presentation at about TikiGraffiti last night. Here is a photo that Scott Beale of Laughing Squid took of me in front of Jonathan Moore’s and David Fine’s External Combustion Engine, an awesome machine made for monochrom’s Roböxotica festival.

Last night was awesome.. Dorkbot, monocrom, SRL, Electrum, Tamale Lady, Mooninites, Laughing Squid, robots that make music and robots that make tiki drinks…. Sometimes I love San Francisco!

Karen has a bunch of pictures, including a bunch from my opendork. Thanks to Karen Marcelo and Michael Shiloh for organizing, and thanks to all the awesome presenters :)

Clover Leaf Guinness

rajbot — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:08:45 +0000

On our way to India we had a layover in London and decided to go out and explore the city. We had lunch near Paddington Station and our bartender poured pints of Guinness with clover leafs drawn in the bubbles!

The 2:1 exchange rate made our short adventure pretty expensive (2 fish & chips and 2 pints of Guinness were 25 pounds.. 50 bucks!). I think we managed to spend as much in London in 10 hours as we did in Delhi in 10 days! On the way back, we decided to not leave the airport.