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"For that price, it had better make coffee too!" Metalworking Lathe
YouTube makers at Nerdforge have crafted a fully functional PC that houses a coffee grinder and roaster inside its chassis. For the discerning power user who needs freshly ground brew right at their desk, this hugely custom job enters to help the caffeination battle.
The PC comes as the result of many hours of labor from Nerdforge's Martina and Hansi, Norwegian makers known for their penchant for difficult and aesthetically pleasing crafts and projects. The coffee-grinding PC was described as a major project taking up the majority of the month of April. The difficulty in building the PC came due to several considerations, including the custom coffee grinding and roasting system and the fully wood trim added to the interior and exterior of the chassis.
Universal Shaper Machine Starting with a monstrous Corsair 1000D as the base, the computer was designed around the coffee system first and foremost, with computer components and visual splendor left to the back half of the project. To avoid all-in-one coffee solutions involving pods that were seen as lacking in quality by the builders, off-the-shelf appliances including a coffee grinder and coffee maker were stripped to their bare essentials and connected to an Arduino to control and synchronize the timings of the units. The Arduino is also connected to sensors that ensure a coffee cup is loaded under the coffee machine before allowing any liquid to be dispensed.