[hiatus]

> * Espresso machine electronics hardware is pretty firmly stuck in the past. If you're lucky you have a 128x64 px OLED, but more likely you have LED indicators, 7 segment displays, or graphical LCDs.

I don't know if I'd consider adding a screen to an espresso machine to be an improvement. What would it be useful for?

[dgacmu]

I have a no-display machine and I wish it had a few things that a screen would facilitate:

(1) Automatic shot timer.

(2) Shot volume display (my machine is a volumetric one, but I have to measure the weight of the output to calculate what volume it dispensed)

(3) Ability to configure other parameters, such as pre-infusion time, where I'm guessing the manufacturer just left this out because it would complicate an already kind of painful button + LED UI.

I also wish it had a group head temperature sensor, but that would add more hardware to the machine than just the screen.

[secabeen]

All this exists from Decent Espresso, but they are the 1% of the market that is the exception.

[mathgeek]

I think we’re coming full circle back to identifying what this company is trying to solve for.