System

Beer brewing and coffee brewing have so much and so little in common. I really want to build a better system for both.
Coffee:
The pod coffee systems (Keurig and stuff) do a decent cup, but the amount of packaging kills me. Also, I don’t drink a cup of coffee. If there’s dregs in the pot, I’ll drink those while I get another pot going. So I need a water reservoir (or plumb it), a heater element, a hopper, and an output. Bonus points for the hopper filling itself and dumping itself. More bonus points for a sensor package where I give it the specs of the bean/roast/grind and it gives me great coffee. Extra bonus points for a barcode scanner to enter in those specs on the fly as a lookup table.
I’ve got some ideas for start I’m envisioning. I should lookup the ideal temperature for beautifully made coffee. That’s going to drive a lot of the design I think.
Beer:
Writing about coffee made me think about some of that as well. The major challenge I think will be temperature again. Looking online I think I’ll need to get two heater elements on different circuits bit I’ll have to check the house’s wiring. While a 110v element will get to temperature eventually it would be a lot easier if it didn’t take an hour and a half. I think I’ll rewatch the episode of BrewTV with Will Wheaton to nail down the process I’m looking at doing.