[NEO Makers] Fwd: [MA-Discuss] Coffee Roasting Night!

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Rick Pollack

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From: Chris Clymer <ccl...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Subject: [MA-Discuss] Coffee Roasting Night!
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Ok, now that Notacon is over it looks like the next Hardware Hacking night is April 30th, a week from this Friday.  It sounds like a few of us are interested in learning about coffee roasting.  I'm going to plan on doing this on the 30th.  It looks like what we need:

- Green Coffee Beans
- Air Popcorn Popper

And if we want to try our coffee immediately:
- Grinder
- Drip coffee maker OR french press and source of piping hot water

I've got a grinder and french press right now, I'm not sure if we have a source of hot water at the space.  If there isn't, I'll bring my drip maker but obviously french press would be preferred.

I'm going to look around for an air popper before then, if anyone else would like to bring theirs thats great too.  I'll also try and get some green beans.  Not sure if anyplace locally can/will do so, so I'm going to figure that one out quickly since I suspect I'll be ordering online.

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Chris Clymer wrote:

Id be interested in learning to roast, ive become a total coffee snob since getting a grinder and french press

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On Apr 2, 2010, at 11:43 AM, "Mr. Fright" <mister...@gmail.com> wrote:

Awesome.  I'm always about Linux and TCP/IP stuff, and I roast my own coffee.  I might have a spare popcorn popper to donate to the space for coffee roasting.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:37 PM, rftech44004 <rftec...@roadrunner.com> wrote:

I haven’t made it to any meetings, yet.  I’ve been working some serious overtime lately.

 

I cycle through various hobbies from time to time.  Here’s the short list.

Lightning photography,

CO2 Lasers,

Tesla Coils,

RF electronics,

Microcontrollers (PIC, MSP430, AVR)

Asterisk PBX,

VoIP,

Linux,

Amateur Radio,

Networking (TCP/IP),

Coffee roasting & Espresso,

Eve Online

 

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I would agree, better to have things centralized and believe drupal has a forum module.  Peraonally i use mailing lists and irc more than forums, but thats not to say someone else wouldnt make better use of forums.  Probably worth some discussion.

 

Rftech:  made it out to any of the meetings yet?  What kinds of projects are you interested in?  As always, glad you found the group : D. The more of us there are, the more we are collectively able to accomplish

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On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:45 AM, "Mr. Fright" <mister...@gmail.com> wrote:

Woops, thats makerSalliance.org

On Apr 1, 2010 9:42 AM, "Mr. Fright" <mister...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!  Welcome to the group, and thanks for the offer.

I'm not sure what others think, but I'd prefer keeping things centralized.  For instance, if we were to use a website forum, I'd like it on makeralliance.org. 

But that begs the question, would that be better than the mailing list?  I don't recall this being dicussed.

-Eric


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From: Rick Pollack <ri...@makergear.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [MA-Discuss] Coffee Roasting Night!
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Let's make our own roaster. What temp is needed and what kind of fan (how much air flow)?

I have lots of nichrome wire (heater) and a controller for the nichrome. I may have a fan that will work...if not, someone does..

Supplies:
Beans
Heater
Bean holder
fan
power supply
what else???

Rick

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Jodie Schneider <ty...@notacon.org> wrote:
I have an air popper. I will check if it is the right kind.

Tyger

On 4/19/10, Mr. Fright <mister...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note the type of airpopper from the link.  The proper popper has a solid
> bottom and vents on the side.  An example of an improper popper is one with
> a mesh bottom.  You need the right one that moves the beans enough.
> Otherwise, you'll burn the ones on the bottom, and still have green on top.
> Try your luck at a thrift store to find one.
>
> I have about a pound and a half of green coffee beans.  I'll try to come if
> I can.
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Chris Clymer <ccl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you want to bring some fresh beans home you'll want to bring your own
>> air-tight container of some sort to put the roasted beans in.
>>
>> This is one of the how-to's I was looking at:
>> http://www.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Chris Clymer wrote:
>>
>> Correction, we also need (and I'll bring) the following:
>> - large bowl
>> - colander
>> - thermometer
>> - large spoon
>> - oven mitt
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>>> I would agree, better to have things centralized and believe drupal has a
>>> forum module.  Peraonally i use mailing lists and irc more than forums,
>>> but
>>> thats not to say someone else wouldnt make better use of forums.
>>> Probably
>>> worth some discussion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Rftech:  made it out to any of the meetings yet?  What kinds of projects
>>> are you interested in?  As always, glad you found the group : D. The more
>>> of
>>> us there are, the more we are collectively able to accomplish
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:45 AM, "Mr. Fright" < <mister...@gmail.com>

>>> makerSalliance.org
>>>
>>> On Apr 1, 2010 9:42 AM, "Mr. Fright" <

>>> mister...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!  Welcome to the group, and thanks for the offer.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what others think, but I'd prefer keeping things
>>> centralized.  For instance, if we were to use a website forum, I'd like
>>> it

>>>
>>>
>>> But that begs the question, would that be better than the mailing list?
>>> I
>>> don't recall this being dicussed.
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Mar 31, 2010 10:15 PM, "rftech44004" <

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Dar Caldwell

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Apr 19, 2010, 12:16:44 PM4/19/10
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Hi guys and gals,
The GCA portfolio showcase will be this Wednesday evening at the incubator.  I would love to see as many of your cool projects on display as possible.  Please let me know if you guys need any special space requirements.  I will be cleaning up the garage this evening so you can start setting up anything you would like. 

Registration (free) for the event can be found here http://spring2010showcase.eventbrite.com/

Thanks,
Dar
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