Makers follow passion pursuits. Coffee lovers chase the perfect cup. Between the two there’s not much difference when you hear the story of Mark Sibenac and Stuart Heys who, in their pursuit of great coffee, applied their engineering skills to build a coffee-making robot. And a great cup of coffee it makes!
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Make this weekend’s morning caffeine fix extra-tasty with this lavender iced coffee recipe!
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I’m definitely smitten with this nature-inspired take on the DIY reusable coffee cup sleeve!
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In this exclusive tutorial, CRAFT writer Haley Pierson-Cox will show you how to make your own reusable drawstring coffee bag, then she’ll walk you through the basics of cold brew.
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Ravelry user Strawberry Knits posted this handsome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coffee Cup Cozy pattern, for y’know, if your coffee cup needs something green to wear.
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When Shawn Wallace and I wrote Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, we wanted to include a few projects that demonstrated the strengths of the single-board computer. One of those strengths is the ability to run a fully-fledged dynamic web server that could take direct control of the GPIO pins for turning on and off household […]
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There are a lot of reasons to love the Rancilio. It’s got a powerful pump to push water through densely packed, finely ground coffee. It’s made of chromed steel, and the boiler and portafilter are made of heavy marine-grade brass. And, for espresso hackers, the Silvia stands above other machines because it’s easy to modify. In many ways, it’s like a pre-1960 automobile. The electronics are simple, with no microchips, digital readouts, or transistors. The steel cover can be removed with an ordinary Phillips-head screwdriver. And once you take the cover off, you see that there’s plenty of room in there. It’s easy to access all the inner workings of the machine.
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