Hi there All,
We’re presently 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 based mostly on the order quantity. We had a decelerate final month ready for brand new aspect panels to reach. We ran out of our aspect panels sooner than anticipated because of the quantity we needed to scrap from fitment points and needed to watch for the provider to replace their gear and iterate a number of occasions to get inside our desired tolerances. Fortunately these panels arrived with the very best 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 among the people behind Corvus Espresso (https://www.corvuscoffee.com), a neighborhood roasting firm targeted 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 offer 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 further sanitation inspection. Due to this, we’ll solely be together with baggage with the remaining home orders. Sorry to our abroad clients!
Corvus can also be engaged on printing customized low cost playing cards for his or her subscription program which received’t be prepared for a number of extra weeks. We predict this can be a nice alternative to associate with a superb native roaster to supply schooling all the best way from farm to cup. Relying on how a lot curiosity there may be within the discounted subscription program we are going to consider on the finish of batch 1 to find out if this can be a sustainable long run partnership for batch 2.
Stress Transducer Adjustments
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 a number of 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 well 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 worth is mirrored on our web site from our worth 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 presently have the primary 30 items which can be transport 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 method as the unique transducer. Please see the video beneath for set up directions.
Odyssey Espresso Argos Pressensor Set up
Software program
We’ve bought some thrilling software program updates this month! Circulation 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 function and we’re excited to allow extra metrics within the app for nerding out on extraction! As at all times if you happen to run into any points be at liberty to publish on discord below 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 information again in early April and now have over 400 photographs recorded. This information has been analyzed and confirmed that our first shot tends to tug 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 “respiratory” indication the place it steadily will increase then decreases in brightness whereas heating up or in between set temperatures, then a gentle on when at temp. We suggest periodically checking for machine firmware updates below Settings -> Join Argos -> Handle Argos -> Replace Firmware. Please observe that you could manually kind all capitalizations for each your community title AND password. It should be actual as a way to work
Hiring
We’re nonetheless keen on resumes for an element time software program developer! We’re on the lookout for somebody that has expertise with React Native and Expo and ideally with bluetooth integration expertise as effectively. Should you assume you may be a superb 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 information for continued firmware enhancements, and extra. Should you or somebody you realize 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 check and high-quality tune shot temps on every machine earlier than sending out. This not solely permits us to run a number of cycles to make sure no apparent leaks or malfunctions but additionally permits us to ship every Argos machine as constant as potential.
Odyssey Argos | High quality Management on Manufacturing Small Batch Espresso Machines
Sincerely,
Ross & William
