An Ito/Leva kit, arrived today. Everything I need to turn my Rancilio Silvia into a poor(ish) man’s Decent espresso machine.
Essentially it’s a micro processor that will give PID control, pressure profiling, controlled dosing (by volume using a flow meter, or by weight if you have a Bluetooth scale), real time monitoring on a computer or tablet etc.
I got it mainly because I enjoy playing around with these sort of things. It’s not cheap, especially with post Brexit import duty, but it’s the most complete package I’ve seen. You also need to be happy to open up and rewire/replumb your machine.
I’ll take some photos and post a thread on the build so others can see, as there isn’t much info on this on English speaking forums (it’s popular in Germany, with lots of discussion on Kaffe-Netz)
