The pressure gauge kit is now available for converting a regular Robot into a barista Robot. {image} {link} We also have 58mm filter papers available. These can be used with the Robot or with any >58mm basket. {link} Lastly our famous innovative silicone gasket range has been extended to La Spaziale

I now have some pastel blue Robots available. {image} These and the Aluminium, Green and Yellow are available on our webshop. Shipping is done by Fed Ex. {link}

Just in case everyone is wondering, almost all of the many plastic bags we use for packing are repurposed and not purchased specifically for the Robot. They are all from the plastic knockboxes we make and we always save the bags for reuse. The bags have only been used once before to transport the kn...

22 pages, so no room for mention of Kaldi and the goat story! Must try better next time

We did a test from within the basket, albeit above the shower screen. It was posted in Update 5 {link} Again it is worth mentioning that the small machine is not a temp and pressure stable marvel. For those of that do, you probably want Stradas or Synessos costing 30-50x more. But it

The regular Robots will be available for sale as soon as we have started shipping the KS rewards. If we open up for pre-sales now it will really complicate and confuse things so I would much prefer to keep it all simple for now. So figure Sept/Oct time

Sorry yes Yellow 0131C - although that 131c look great for a 70's theme. What can you do? The love of nespresso is strong with some people. So the deal with the 700k stretch goal and the yellow is that people keep pledging and choose aluminium or green as planned. If we hit $700k

I am not tamping that hard, just a firm press after nutating. With such a deep basket it makes it easy to eyeball if the tamper "handle" is straight in the basket. I then push the dispersion screen down and press it firmly on the coffee bed. Apart from the dispersion screen, that is pretty

You are not missing anything and personally I do not pre-heat cups either, but it was requested and so put it out there Hmmm that yellow is really not my thing, it was just a yellow I had lying around when I was experimenting with powder coating. The original plan many years ago was 50's

Haha I was just thinking about that. The mess is not an issue, scratchy cup bases are. Anyway with regards colours, we always had a plan to do a soft 50's yellow which might be the next choice. As for multiple colours it simply is not possible as the minimum quantities are huge. Think >500