Audible scale?
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I'd love to have a digital scale that will beep as the weight rises closer to a pre-set value.
Seems like acaia is in the best position to do this, but I don't think it has a buzzer built-in. Maybe the app can do that.
Scenario is:
I pre-set my target brew ratio, say 1:2.
I weigh empty portafilter, it's auto-tared.
I grind, and weigh portaftiler with coffee, it's recorded, say 18g.
I lock in portafilter, put scale on drip tray, add cup (and auto-tared).
Now start brewing, I will then steam milk, or do whatever.
As the weight gets closer to 36g, say starting from 30g. The scale start to beep, like a boom, more rapidly as it gets closer.
I then know when to stop the brewing, even if I'm still focusing on streaming the milk and not looking at the reading on the scale.
Seems like acaia is in the best position to do this, but I don't think it has a buzzer built-in. Maybe the app can do that.
Scenario is:
I pre-set my target brew ratio, say 1:2.
I weigh empty portafilter, it's auto-tared.
I grind, and weigh portaftiler with coffee, it's recorded, say 18g.
I lock in portafilter, put scale on drip tray, add cup (and auto-tared).
Now start brewing, I will then steam milk, or do whatever.
As the weight gets closer to 36g, say starting from 30g. The scale start to beep, like a boom, more rapidly as it gets closer.
I then know when to stop the brewing, even if I'm still focusing on streaming the milk and not looking at the reading on the scale.
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- Posts: 806
- Joined: 9 years ago
Cool idea. I think it might be really hard to implement. Stopping a shot right on target takes some anticipation since it happens closely. Unless the shot pulls quite slowly, I'd guess we'd just have a quiet scale and then full missile lock beeping suddenly. But of course someone should be able to figure this out. Like a PID that just loops back to a speaker instead of a device to control.
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