Coffee Roaster
As with most of my projects, the idea for this one first came from my typical day-to-day activities. Specifically, after I had drank about my hundredth cup of coffee with my coworker in our office.
To begin my homemade coffee roaster, I just started spit-balling ideas with my coworker. Before I knew it, I had an entire design started up in my head. My first idea incorporated an entirely electric design. After a few trials that took about 3 times too long to roast, which resulted in tremendous loss in flavor, I decided to scrap the homemade electric heating coil design and go with a standard propane design like you might find documented all over the internet (sometimes the tried and true is the way to go).
There is still a long ways to go with the final design with adding automation to the design, but most all of mechanical operation has been completed.
Beginning of v2.0
Fully assembled inner working
Nichrome wire heating element
Inner Drum
Completed v1.0
First assembly of parts
