Howdy All,
We’re at present as much as Order 749 which is round 460 machines shipped! That now places us at 81% full for batch 1. As a reminder, not each order has a machine, so please don’t attempt to calculate when yours will ship primarily based on the order quantity. We had a decelerate final month ready for brand new facet panels to reach. We ran out of our facet panels sooner than anticipated because of the quantity we needed to scrap from fitment points and needed to look forward to the provider to replace their gear and iterate just a few instances to get inside our desired tolerances. Fortunately these panels arrived with the perfect match we’ve seen and we’ve been in a position to work on catching again up with the brand new elements. This does imply it’ll push the ultimate shipments of batch 1 barely into the month of August. We’ll then transition straight into batch 2!
Corvus Partnership
Again in April, we began chatting with a few of the of us behind Corvus Espresso (https://www.corvuscoffee.com), an area roasting firm centered on sustainability and schooling by working straight with the farmers that they supply from. After connecting over SCA Expo in Chicago, Corvus advised a collaboration the place they would supply a bag of beans for the remaining machines shipped in Batch 1. We obtained the primary baggage from them final week and began together with them in bins. Sadly, we’ve run into import points with abroad shipments requiring extra sanitation inspection. Due to this, we’ll solely be together with baggage with the remaining home orders. Sorry to our abroad prospects!
Corvus can also be engaged on printing customized low cost playing cards for his or her subscription program which gained’t be prepared for just a few extra weeks. We predict it is a nice alternative to accomplice with a superb native roaster to supply schooling all the best way from farm to cup. Relying on how a lot curiosity there’s within the discounted subscription program we are going to consider on the finish of batch 1 to find out if it is a sustainable long run partnership for batch 2.
Strain Transducer Modifications
In June 2022, we first met Miklos from Pressensor on the WOC Milan Expo. We chatted concerning the new stress transducer that he was engaged on and in 2023, he despatched just a few samples for us to check and combine with our app. We determined that after we ran out of our unique inventory of transducers, we might make the change to supply Pressensor’s transducers. Miklos’ sensors boast a small footprint and use an off the shelf coin battery which is definitely replaceable.
After utilizing the sensor for lengthy sufficient, we realized that the M6 threads had been shut sufficient to the M5 port in our grouphead. We turned down and re-threaded the sensor in our store and located that it was an ideal match to put in straight into the grouphead. This eradicated the necessity to extra bracketry whereas staying out of the best way of boiler cap removing and steaming. Whereas these sensors are dearer than the earlier ones, the elevated value is mirrored on our web site from our value enhance a number of months in the past.
Pressensor can be sending us customized threaded transducers to suit straight into our M5 grouphead port and we at present have the primary 30 items which are delivery out now that we’re out of inventory of the unique elements. For those who want to use the transducer with our analog gauge, we’ll have an M5 to G1/8 adapter to slot in the identical approach as the unique transducer. Please see the video under for set up directions.
Odyssey Espresso Argos Pressensor Set up
Software program
We’ve obtained some thrilling software program updates this month! Movement fee plotting is now on by default! You may toggle it on/off in addition to toggling weight plotting on/off by clicking the gear icon on the highest proper of the Brew tab and going to brew settings. This has been a closely requested characteristic and we’re excited to allow extra metrics within the app for nerding out on extraction! As all the time if you happen to run into any points be at liberty to submit on discord beneath the App part.
We’ve additionally up to date the Argos firmware to model 1.3.2. Our techs began monitoring all of our QC shot knowledge again in early April and now have over 400 pictures recorded. This knowledge has been analyzed and confirmed that our first shot tends to drag barely cooler than the remaining so we’ve bumped up the setpoint for a typical “first shot” within the app.
It’s additionally been requested that we make it extra apparent when the machine is turned on and heating. The brew temp LED will now have a “respiration” indication the place it progressively will increase then decreases in brightness whereas heating up or in between set temperatures, then a gentle on when at temp. We advocate periodically checking for machine firmware updates beneath Settings -> Join Argos -> Handle Argos -> Replace Firmware. Please notice that you could manually kind all capitalizations for each your community identify AND password. It have to be actual so as to work
Hiring
We’re nonetheless keen on resumes for an element time software program developer! We’re searching for somebody that has expertise with React Native and Expo and ideally with bluetooth integration expertise as nicely. For those who assume you may be a great match and are keen on working with us please attain out to us at assist@odysseyespresso.com!
We’re additionally hiring for a full time 30-40 hours per week High quality Management and Sub Meeting technician. This position will cowl a variety of duties together with sub meeting manufacture, temperature checks on constructed machines, analyzing knowledge for continued firmware enhancements, and extra. For those who or somebody you already know could also be , please have them attain out! Native candidates most popular and a versatile schedule is feasible.
High quality Management Course of:
For anybody that’s , we not too long ago launched a video displaying a part of our high quality management course of the place we take a look at and superb tune shot temps on every machine earlier than sending out. This not solely permits us to run just a few cycles to make sure no apparent leaks or malfunctions but additionally permits us to ship every Argos machine as constant as attainable.
Odyssey Argos | High quality Management on Manufacturing Small Batch Espresso Machines
Sincerely,
Ross & William
