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If you have not created a Zipwhip account or installed the Zipwhip app on your Android phone, you can click register to do so.

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When you first install the app you have to login. The Zipwhip app runs in the notification area of your Ubuntu desktop-the same place apps like Skype run. When you click reply, you get to type an inline message and hit Ctrl+Enter on your keyboard to quickly fire off the response. When a text message hits your Android phone, it also hits your desktop with a text bubble. Equal parts erector set and harbinger of doom, you simply text this machine your order, then watch on in horror as a creepy robot arm takes your mug, starts up a modded Jura Impressa XS90 super-automatic grind-and-brew, and slaps your.

“We’re huge proponents of the Linux community.” If Cyberdine Systems from Terminator 2 had a post-apocalyptic future coffee maker, it’d probably look like Seattle start-up Zipwhip’s Text-Spresso device. “We’re very proud of this, it lets you get your text messages popping up right on Ubuntu,” Lauer said. We created this machine to show off the capabilities of our software. Here’s an exclusive sneak peak at the Ubuntu application. Zipwhip is a cloud texting company based out of Seattle, Washington.

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Zipwhip is available now on Mac OS and Windows and the Linux app will be available in three weeks. Its Linux infrastructure includes Ubuntu 10.04 servers Couchbase/Membase ActiveMQ MySQL Nginx Cassandra for MMS and SMS messaging MogileFS for external file attachments Nagios Keepalived and OpenSwan. The four-year-old company now runs 150 virtual machines across three datacenters that handle nearly a billion text messages each month. Zipwhip sends text messages to and from your desktop or tablet – fully synchronized with your phone to delete messages or mark them as read – via the cloud. Zipwhip plans to open source the entire application and release circuit designs with Arduino code so you can build your own, he said.īut really, open source coffee serves as a nice demo for their true product, the Zipwhip Android app, which runs on a whole suite of Linux-based products. While the “ Textspresso” machine isn’t for sale, it operates entirely on Java code and could easily be built with a Linux box, Lauer said.

Zipwhip CEO John Lauer quickly and enthusiastically responded, “we couldn’t survive without Linux.” So we wanted to know: what’s the underlying technology? To make this dream perfect, though, it’s got to be built with Linux. Its engineers custom-built an espresso machine that takes orders via SMS using their own cloud messaging application. East Idaho Credit Union weather sponsor Send a Tip (208) 528-NEWS. On your morning commute, you send a text message to the office espresso machine with your order for a double Americano and the warm mug is waiting when you get in.įor Seattle-based cloud texting company Zipwhip, the dream is reality.