The tinkerers who opened up (the Fellows Aiden) coffee maker to AI brewing
The tinkerers who opened up (the Fellows Aiden) coffee maker to AI brewing

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The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing

The tinkerers who opened up (the Fellows Aiden) coffee maker to AI brewing
The tinkerers who opened up a fancy coffee maker to AI brewing
Interesting idea I guess but I'm a little foggy on what's happening here after reading this. So I buy my local beans and then what? Tell it about the roast level and origin? Does it look for any collected info on my local roaster from other users? Where do the Ai brains come in exactly?
I still believe the ultimate coffee brewer will be something that assess physical properties of a very small sample (single bean) such as crush modulus, water content, spectroscopic roast level, bean density, etc. Etc. And then comes up with grind size recs and brew parameters. Going from really good to great with any bean almost always comes with trial and error related to a slew of variables that are not static from bag to bag.
I guess it processes scraped data from whatever beans you ask it to brew.
I don't own a Fellow Aiden, but I asked ChatGPT the following:
Which is a bag of grounds that I picked up at Grocery Outlet last week
and it came back with:
Of course, I said yes, and it asked to be connected to a pre-created ChatGPT prompt, "brew-link-generator" which must be the coding part to generate instructions for the brewer's API.
However that works, because as I said before I don't have a Fellow Aiden.
Does Aiden not have it's own AI built in? Kind of confusing to call something AIden in 2025 and rely on these external AI systems.