Gadgetory

the thing was like I was drinking coffee when I was in college it always tastes a little bit different I wanted to make it always tastes good and so I developed this system where I could see the number of variables that actually mattered to coffee and then when I was out looking for a coffee machine that could control these variables independently because if you're gonna be scientific about something you have to independent control of your variables I couldn't find anything and so I decided to make my own we run a Fiat proportional integral derivative feedback control on our brew chamber unit so it's basically a fancy way of saying that we measure the temperature of the coffee while it brews and we use heating elements to correct that temperature to be whatever it is that you've set it to be so we can control temperature to be perfectly flat line we can do various temperature profiles as well for a net dynamic control of temperature this is the first machine really capable of doing what it does and so we're just now discovering what happens to coffee when you have this level of controllers a temperature is extremely important for extracting the proper flavor from coffee every machine will be connected to the internet so you can download the perfect brew recipe through our cloud service we're having a web application that we're writing right now so you can access your machine through our web app and for example if you were to use it on an iPad or a computer it would give you very in-depth control over what you can do with your with your coffee brewing so you can craft your temperature profiling or your your durations or ratios of coffee to water right there on our web application and then load it to your machine so this is our dev 2 prototype it functions similarly to our final product that's going to be delivered in the spring but looks quite different so we have a user interface here with a knob that you twist to make a selection and click to confirm and you can store preset brew recipes in there 200 Fahrenheit 8 ounces of water and that's 70 second brew duration when I am pressed to begin get started was taking that exact 8 ounces of water out of the reservoir and moving into the boiler using a water pump once it's inside of that boiler we're going to run a PID feedback control on so there's an Arduino mega microcontroller over here and that Arduino mega is what is doing the processing for this to all all of us to occur and then there's resistive electrical heating elements inside of the boiler itself with the second relay that does power management to our brew chamber unit and inside of our brew chamber unit we have 500 watts of resistive electrical heating elements that's enough to boil water directly if we want to do it it is a lot of power that also is controlled by the the Arduino mega in terms of the sort of larger competition the buns and the you know the the bigger companies out there luckily I think we've stayed small enough so far that that they haven't spent too much time looking our way I absolutely want to expand to blow markets it's my vision to make amazing coffee available to everyone and so absolutely I think you know bringing our prices down as an aspect of that everybody wants to see what's possible to see what can taste better and there's a very large group of people that are embracing technology as a way to do that