Espresso Dinosaur

[nalsa]

Someone needs to make this now.

Well? Why are you reading this? Go and make it!

Comments

[margotmetroland]

Genius! And I don't even like coffee.

Perhaps a little summer project for jondiesch?

[jondiesch]

I reckon it's doable...

*wonders how to dismantle a Handpresso*

[jarkman]

The easiest route might be to start with one of these:
http://www.rei.com/product/401117?cm_mmc=cse_bizrate-_-datafeed-_-product-_-401117&mr:referralID=4abd9bf5-4ba3-11df-bf2c-000423bb4e79
and a little spirit burner for heat. Wrap the whole thing in a tin dinosaur, which is clearly just welded up from bent sheet...

[jondiesch]

That's a bit low-tech isn't it? Besides I already have two handpressos, one could surely be turned into a dinosaur!

[jarkman]

I like to read 'low-tech' as 'easy'. But yes, parts you have must trump parts you don't have.

Looks like the Handpresso pumps like a bike pump ? Presumably that is operated by cranking the dinosaur's tail up & down ?

[jondiesch]

Yes, tail. That's right. Tail. Definitely.

[jarkman]

You're thinking it would save linkage work to go with a more linear action ?

[mr_tom]

You'd need to make sure there's enough room for a mechanism to express shots of steamed milk.

Have I taken this too far?

[jondiesch]

Definitely too far. Excellent.

Anyway, the Handpresso only makes single shots of espresso, for full anatomically-correct dinosauric coffee production I would have to create a shell around my La Pavoni, which is not entirely impossible...

[moral_vacuum]

Oh yes.

[nalsa]

Not yet. Needs a yoghurt attachment somewhere, too. For consistency.