Update!

Hey folk, hope all is well out there. As noted in the quick edit to my last update, I ended up in the ER last week with pneumonia. I’m much better now but it was pretty terrible. This resulted in about 10 days of zero work getting done. Progress has clearly stalled this month. It seem’s like the universe has it’s thumb on the scale lately and the only option has been to push back until we come out on the other side. I feel like that day is today and the outlook is clear from here on out. That being said, it has been a lot and I know it is probably quite annoying to see the wheels spinning after several months of steady progress. I appreciate your patience and am eager to get back to sharing legitimate and quantifiable progress again.

Today I have been working on enclosure assembly, primarily focused on the head unit. Things feel really good. I have added four additional steel brackets to the front panel. These brackets, combined with the steel screen mounts have resulted in an extremely rigid setup. There is zero flex when using the touch screen. An important part of this was also having the front panels cover the entire frame. I mentioned this in an update several weeks back. Previously, the screen and front panel where kind of sandwiched within the center plane of the front panel’s frame, which allowed that acrylic panel to flex.

My goal with the enclosure work is to be doing brew demos from the machine within two weeks.

I have also touched on the UI a bit, working on some recipe list calls and frontend auth integration. The auth work is the most important piece to complete right now. Most of the remaining UI features to complete utilize user profiles in some way, so everything kind of ends up half complete until auth is running. I did try to complete this yesterday, but my brain was just not up to the task while I was still in a bit of a recovery mode. There was much confusion… Backend auth is complete, this work is just getting all the hooks and token refresh implemented in the front end. This will be my only software focus until completed.

Ok, that is all for now. Next update will be next weekend and we should have some good stuff to share.

Cheers!