Casabrews makes a whole range of budget-friendly espresso machines, including the Casabrews 5418, $169 from Amazon and the ...

Last night I rebuilt my ECM Giotto with a new boiler. I’ve seen PID controlled machines before, but today I stumbled across this modded Rancillo Silvia. [Tim] replaced the internal brain with… ...

Jan 03, 2012 23:43:09 Espresso machine using differential, integral and proportional control (PID control) Gleb Polyakov and Igor Zamlinsky are always suffering that there are only two ...

The fittings are 1/4-inch BSPP. For whatever ungodly reason, Italian espresso machines use British threads. Adapters can be acquired, but we really wanted our espresso machine back so we made our own.

99% of the job is the mechanical aspect. Using a pre-made board (be it a dedicated PID controller or an arduino with a few lines of code) and a SSR is damn easy.