diyPresso One – How to build your own espresso machine

Thanks to the Arduino team for highlighting this one. We’re talking a kit for building your own espresso machine that you can configure via open source software.

Talking of gold, though, it will cost you a lot of money. €1,250!

diyPresso One

The makers write:

“All settings are fully adjustable. Change the pressure through the over pressure valve and through a simple menu structure on a display, you can customize every aspect of your brew to perfection. Tweak temperature, extraction time, extraction weight, preinfusion and PID settings with ease, tailoring each cup to your exact preferences. With the ability to save personalized profiles, you can fine-tune your espresso for the ultimate taste sensation.”

The Arduino angle? Its controller is built around an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 board, apparently. And users can modify the machine’s behavior through sketch changes.

You can read the specification here. For example, it runs on a Microchip SAMD21 Cortex-M0+. For temperature monitoring it uses an Adafruit PT1000 RTD Temperature Sensor Amplifier, using an Analog Devices MAX31865 RTD-to-Digital converter. As for the display, it’s a Reichelt DEBO LCD and its powered by a MEAN WELL RS-15 5V supply.

The more bread and butter specifications include stainless steel casing, a 1.5 litre capacity, a 1300W heating element, and a custom made (0.6 litre copper boiler)… You can read all about it on the diyPresso website.

Coffee

Like I say, we have covered the coffee making angle before in Gadget Master.

We’ve written, for example, about the Arduino-based Gaggiuino Mod – a modification to the classic Gaggia machine – and the BARTH EspressoMaker – which uses the BARTH Elektronik lococube.

See also: A coffee please Rapiro, my little Raspberry Pi powered humanoid