Let This Robot Butter Your Toast For You

Hackster Staff
Feb 24, 2017 · 1 min read

Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen numerous projects take a shot at automating your breakfast routine. These inventions have ranged from pancake printers to cereal-serving machines. Next on that list: an “extremely violent” toast-buttering robot.

This project isn’t the brainchild of Simone Giertz, but rather William Osman who writes:

Do you hate buttering toast? I’ve built a machine which does it quickly; so quickly in fact the toast often ends up in alternate dimensions.

Osman used a pair of motors: an Arduino-driven linear stepper motor that moves the bread back and forth, and a jigsaw motor that holds the butter. The bot’s frame and mounts are made of laser-cut wood, and everything is held together by a few zip ties.

You can see the end result in the video below!

Speaking of Rick & Morty projects, check out the Useless Duck Company’s Screaming Sun alarm.

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