Considering an Italian homage for espresso, I think it would be cool to have the Greek/Roman God/Goddesses as a skin in addition to Hindu Gods. Maybe Aphrodite for espresso, Zeus for Steam, Poseidon for hot water? Obviously skins are customizable and not necessary prior to shipping just thought it would be cool.

Pfffftttt! Well guessed! !!!!

decent_espresso wrote:Pfffftttt! Well guessed! !!!!

LOL!!

patrickff wrote:I was looking for "Apply" buttons next to "Profiles" and "Styles", but I guess this is what "Cancel" and "Ok" are for. Alternatively, I like how OS X (sorry macOS isn't a name) does it: most setting changes are applied immediately, but an "Undo"/"Back" button can be used to restore the previous setting(s).

You understood it correctly: when you tap a profile or a tablet style, it takes effect right away. For instance, you can then edit the pressure profile. But if you hit cancel the changes are undone.

I remember what an innovation "unlimited undo" was when it was introduced to desktop software. Unfortunately, I believe that "undo" is not a concept that has been carried over the phone & tablet user interfaces.

patrickff wrote:[*] Maybe adding Date/Author to each "Profile"

You can name them any way you want, so if you want a date and a human name, you can do that.

patrickff wrote: Following standard naming conventions: "Other" -> "Machine" (or "System"), "Machine" -> "About"

That sounds like useful advice, but you compacted it so much I don't understand it. Can you explain a bit more?

patrickff wrote:P.S. The 'X" in the french "espresso" makes my heart cry I wouldn't translate coffee industry terms.

They really do write it that way. It's not a mis-spelling, it's a French word, that's all.

GAC wrote:LOL!!

Venus/Aphrodite was a big hit at the Portland Coffee Fest trade show, where we printed her life size. She's a bit racy. During show "tear down" she was actually stolen when we weren't looking! Ha!

A bit racy perhaps, but not indecent...

Help me translate our espresso machine into your language.

I'm looking especially for Korean, Japanese, Arabic, but I'm happy to do any other languages people want.

I'd also love to get Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese native coffee lovers to correct the translation we have already done.

Currently, there are only about 100 words to translate, so it's a quick job, and you'll enter your translation on a shared google spreadsheet.

If you'd like to help, send me a personal message with your email address.

patrickff wrote: P.S. The 'X" in the french "espresso" makes my heart cry I wouldn't translate coffee industry terms.

FWIW, neither is used in everyday life in France or Italy. When you walk in a café in France and want an espresso, you either ask for a "café" or an "express". AFAIK, it's the same thing in Italy, you ask for a "caffé" to get an espresso.

North America - including Quebec - seems to have adopted the Italian spelling, I would say mainly because of the influence/weight/onslaught of the second wave coffee chains.

+1
I live in Montreal and espresso is pretty common.

The forms for our drip tray and water tank have been made. A robotic CNC machine milled these out of solid blocks of aluminum!



In case you haven't been following every single progress report I sent, these were needed because we recently discovered that none of the ceramics factories can read 3D CAD files, but they were embarrassed to say so. They've been approximating by reading our 2D drawings, and getting things only somewhat right. The ceramics factories asked us to give them exactly what we wanted them to make, and they'd figure out how to do that (hopefully, taking clay shrinkage into account!).

We've made two sets because we've got two final contenders in terms of ceramics factories to order from. These water tanks cost USD $750 each to make, so I really hope this "cracks the code" and we finally get something we're happy to use.

Also received today:
1) in the bottom left, you can see our first attempt at a home-made "flush diffuser" so that you don't get splashed when the pressure is released.
2) in the center bottom, is our first attempt at a "blade" that will fit into our portafilter funnel, to turn the funnel into a rotating grounds diffusion tool.

Below is a photo of two espresso machine legs, which are also going to the ceramics vendors, so they can make sure the water tank and drip tray they make fit well into it.

These legs are a new design for us, in that they're now made out of one piece of bent aluminum. For the past two years we've made the legs from two parts that we bolted together, but we were concerned that after several years the legs would eventually sag in the middle, so we've switched to this much stronger (but harder to pull off) design.