I should probably pull the PID controllers and USB adapters out before the old machines are hauled away. Neither was original to the machine and I can always use more test hardware.
I haven't measured the ground color but the default pre-programmed roasting plan it comes with gets the coffee to a 58 exterior on the gourmet scale which is right on the standard sample roasting spec. I'll need to mess around with this to get something a little closer on the timing to my standard and I'd like to also see about matching my standard for evaluating the potential of a coffee sample for espresso preparation among other things.
(the cat doesn't speak English, but I was raised by a cat so I understand a bit of their language; this was a translation from cat to English)
Everything that I ordered with the espresso machine except for the espresso machine itself has arrived. It took way too much torque to get the spouts on the spare double portafilter to line up properly (I needed it to go another 3/4 around). The triple is bottomless so that's much less of an issue (the new machine should have a single, two doubles, and a triple available to use).
Today I provided email support to someone who is using a version of my software that's over 6 years old. I think he'd benefit from upgrading to the latest version (I've added a lot of useful stuff in the past 6 years) but it's his choice and if he wants to just move the old version that's working for him onto a new computer, there's nothing wrong with that.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.