How's a girl going to get a nice bean to cup coffee in the morning? Automate it!
<Updated 5th July 2025 to include water level monitoring> <Updated 8th April 2024 as Switchbot bots are useful via Matter.> I grew up in the UK, where coffee was just terrible. It was the 2nd worst coffee in the western world! (If there are any American's reading this, please do not ask me whose is the worst). Then I went to Australia, and discovered fantastic coffee, as the Aussies have been heavily influenced by the Italians, Lebanese and Greeks. I was in coffee heaven. This has meant, on my return to the UK, that I must now have at least one good cup of coffee a day... and this means I must have my own Espresso machine. This was going to require a very special Espresso machine though. I wanted an automated one..... until I started looking at how much that was going to cost me. They are eye-waveringly expensive. So, I scaled my ambitions back a bit. I needed a nice coffee machine that could: work with button presses. be able to produce 2 double espresso's at th...
