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Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 28 March, 2023 - 17:41 · 1 minute
Making espresso at home involves a conundrum familiar to many activities: It can be great, cheap, or easy to figure out, but you can only pick, at most, two of those. You can spend an infinite amount of time and money tweaking and upgrading your gear, chasing shots that taste like the best café offerings, always wondering what else you could modify.
Or you could do what Norm Sohl did and build a highly configurable machine out of open source hardware plans and the thermal guts of an Espresso Gaggia . Here's what Sohl did, and some further responses from the retired programmer and technical writer, now that his project has circulated in both open hardware and espresso-head circles.
Like many home espresso enthusiasts, Sohl had seen that his preferred machine, the Gaggia Classic Pro, could be modified in several ways, including adding a proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller and other modifications to better control temperature, pressure, and shot volumes. Most intriguing to Sohl was Gaggiuino , a project that adds those things with the help of an Arduino Nano or STM32 Blackpill , a good deal of electrical work, and open software.
Your next pour-over may be Liberica or excelsa
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 15 December, 2022 - 20:12
Coffee is uniquely vulnerable to climate change . It grows in tropical regions, where temperatures and rainfall are becoming increasingly erratic; it is grown by small farms, which do not have the resources available to weather the coming literal and figurative storms; and despite the fact that coffee is among the most highly traded commodities in the world, little agricultural research time or money has been devoted to it.
Right now, just two species of coffee are grown commercially: Arabica and robusta. Droughts over the past couple of years have reduced coffee yield, even as demand is exploding. Something must be done. Tea plantations are facing similar problems , so switching to tea won’t help. ( Molecular coffee might eventually be an option, though.)
But researchers in the UK and Uganda posit that coffee farms can adapt in a number of ways. They can move, they can change their practices, or they can plant different varieties of coffee. These researchers vote for option three. And they have a candidate: Liberica coffee.
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comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Thursday, 15 December, 2022 - 15:02
Penguin reviews coffee cups…
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comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Tuesday, 27 September, 2022 - 17:06
Out now! One Cup at a Time, the second Cat’s Cafe book is now available in stores: https://linktr.ee/catscafecomics
Carefully crafted coffee!
comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Thursday, 31 March, 2022 - 14:00
Carefully crafted coffee!
I’m happy to announce ‘One Cup at a Time’!...
comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Tuesday, 9 November, 2021 - 16:21
I’m happy to announce ‘One Cup at a Time’! The second collection of Cat’s Cafe comics comes to book shelves in 2022. Stay turned for more details on release soon.
Ways to enjoy hot coffee or tea! How do you like to drink your...
comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Friday, 5 November, 2021 - 14:00
Ways to enjoy hot coffee or tea! How do you like to drink your hot beverage?
Watch out for the Mothperson!October is Cryptids month at Cat’s...
comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Monday, 4 October, 2021 - 14:02
Watch out for the Mothperson!
October is Cryptids month at Cat’s Cafe! What other cryptids and spooky friends might we see visit the cafe??