Jan's 3D printed grind cup
Jan's 3D printed grind cupYoutube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdU_VhiHTls
View ArticleF.B. Hotz & an espresso
F.B. Hotz and espressoYoutube version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSKbak1aKd4
View ArticleListening to BBC World Service
Tuning in to the BBC is easy and one can do it with very basic stuff around the house. Here, for instance, we use a GRAHN LW 3 directionally sensitive module on the GRAHN GS3-SE, adding 10mHz to the...
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Sputnik 3 testing
Our "Tiny cheap coffee roaster" keeps getting bigger, with LOTS of work going into better construction to get more roasting capacity within reasonable power needs. Here Jan test drives the new control...
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Volts and Amps of Zierikzee
Connected a 1963, 26kg Delta Electronics TPS 030.10 lab power supply to a GRAHN Spezialantennen feeding long wave BBC signal to Rohde and Schwarz EK07DYoutube version:...
View ArticleHow-To: instructional video
If you need to do something like that, then this is a good way to do it.("or stress release and steam relief" says John) Video by Roemer Overdiep.How-To video by Roemer OverdiepYoutube version:...
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Boiler overfilling? Cleaning water level probe
A few snapshots of taking out the water level probe when it is not sensing the water level as well as before, and putting back the clean probe.After putting it back, let the machine warm up, keep steam...
View ArticleSputnik 3 test 2
Since we fried one of the outputs of the TC4, we try again but now swapping the heating element control to OT2. Turns out that does work, but it switches too fast for us and we will get us another TC4,...
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El Salvador Apaneca
My friend Conni (one of the founders of Fractal Collective) sends me a happy message from his home where he is enduring these days of semi lockdown and social distancing.He has a Compak grinder, a Kinu...
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Shake That Thang
See also: Jan's 3D printed grind cupAfter Jan van der Weel 3D printed a cup to stir and shake grinds in before dropping the grinds into the filter basket, I asked Gerard at DiRossi if he could make one...
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Cheap wireless charging? No thanks.
A few weeks ago I bought a wireless phone charger, for a little under € 10 at the Jumbo supermarket. Now, in the quiet solitude of corona prevention, I tried it out.The phone got warm and the charge...
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Squeezebox still works
In 2005 I bought a Squeezebox network music player and a couple years later I gave it away.The friend who got it planned to figure out what can be done with it but was busy at the time (he still is)...
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Comparing roasts in the new Artisan v2.4
The latest 2.4 version of Artisan has an exciting set of new features, explained by the team on the Artisan blog: https://artisan-roasterscope.blogspot.com/2020/06/artisan-v24.htmlThe new Roast...
View ArticleLONDINIUM LR24
LONDINIUM R24 v LONDINIUM R This video illustrates the primary difference between the latest evolution of the LONDINIUM R, the R24. The '24' recognises that the machine is now 24 volts inside, other...
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PNG coffee
Frequently over the past years, Reiss Gunson advised me to get my hands on PNG beans to roast and only recently I got a chance to buy 20kg of these, at Hoofdkwartier.I roasted a first batch, let these...
View ArticleFamag Grilletta 5S mixer(& fixer)
My new Famag Grilletta 5S arrived today and is working beautifully. In transport a shortish tight connector had slipped loose and it needed to be reconnected. Luckily the machine is so easy, looking at...
View ArticleMixing Sourdough in Famag Grilletta
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