Update!

Hey folks, hope all is well out there! Here are the current bits:

Brew Testing: I am moving on to brew testing and fixing issues as they pop up. Right now I am actively woking on synchronizing the movement of the water spout with that of the pour over cone. This is mostly some math around motor step degrees and timing, with some small updates to make sure the spout is zeroed correctly before a pour starts.

Should be a couple of hours of work and then we should be good to actually brew some coffee with the updated set up.

Finalizing Lots of Details:

  • Pin Mapping: Making sure there are no conflicts with the Pi itself, or Mugsy hardware since offloading some functionality from the microcontroller.

  • Streamlining the OS: Removing unnecessary apps and overhead. This also entails testing a few different methods of running Chromium to squeeze out as much responsiveness as possible for the frontend.

  • Bye Bye Dev Mode: Getting out of Node's dev mode and confirming production is working as expected. This is straightforward and no issues are expected.

Initial docs: I have started some very basic documentation. Currently focused on manual installation of the required apps/libraries that make up MugsyOS. This should 100% not be followed at this point, but I was eager to get things moving so I can start iterating on it a bit each day. This doc is in the Builder repo’s wiki: https://github.com/MugsyOS/Builder/wiki/Manual-Installation

Next few days: A lot of what I have been working on the last few days doesn’t lend itself to vids/pics but I will have have some visual content to share in this weekend’s update. I do not expect to have a firm shipping ETA for at least another several days.

I will be pushing the next update out on Sunday or Monday unless something important pops up before then.

Thanks!

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