Zen and the Art of Japanese Tea Robots
Zen And The Art Of Japanese Tea Robots

    

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        In Japan, tea ceremony (cha-dou) is revered as a way to a gain deeper insights into life and philosophy. Traditional Japanese tea ceremony practitioners put in long hours to master the intricacies and details of pouring tea. The road to becoming a tea master is crucial as it develops the practitioner’s mental state as well as physical technique.
However if you don’t have time to master the “way of tea”, then you can build a bot and automate your zen experience. That’s exactly what the people at Ano Labs did when they built their Japanese Tea Ceremony Robot #151A.


The Japanese hacking scene is really interesting because there’s an aesthetic to creating very technical things that perform tasks that aren’t particularly useful. Another example would be this Lego Bubble Wrap Popper:

	            
    
    					
    				
    					 
    									
    			
    					
                        
    					
    									
    			
    					
    				
    					
    									
    			
    					
                
    					
    									
    			
    			
    


            	
	
            

            


        
        

        
        

        
        
    

