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  • description: Today is a fun look at a homemade prototype that shows exciting promise for the future of the Moka Pot. It also has an entirely serious explanation of what a PID controller is. For more of Javi’s work: https://brewtalistvalencia.com/ https://www.instagram.com/javier.vidal.tellols The FrankenMoka Experiments: https://youtu.be/zK0F5PqJ1Gk The Ultimate Moka Pot Technique: https://youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4 Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:14 The gap in modern moka pot brewing 01:19 Introducing The MokaBot prototype 02:00 The MokaBot’s features and build 03:45 What is a PID controller? 05:37 P for Proportional 05:57 I for Integral 06:27 D for Derivative 07:09 MokaBot brewing runthrough 11:09 Graphing a brew in real time 14:00 Thoughts and hopes for the future of moka pot brewing 16:05 Final brew and departing thoughts Our coffee playing cards: https://geni.us/THT-Cards Pirate image attribution: J.J. at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons https://share.epidemicsound.com/V62Rf Other Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jameshoffmann Limited Edition Merch: https://geni.us/TensHundredsThousands Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimseven Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jimseven My Books: I wrote the foreword and afterword to Julian Baggini’s The Book of Coffee*: https://geni.us/thebookofcoffee How to Make The Best Coffee At Home*: https://geni.us/howtomakethebestcoffee The World Atlas of Coffee*: https://geni.us/worldatlasofcoffee The World Atlas of Coffee Audiobook*: https://bit.ly/worldatlasofcoffeeaudio The Best of Jimseven*: https://geni.us/bestofjimseven Things I use and like: My old glasses: http://bit.ly/boldlondon My new glasses (Sept 2024 onwards): https://bit.ly/thenewglasses My hair product of choice*: https://geni.us/forthehair (*Affiliate links which may earn us a commission)
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