Hello, everyone, my name is Joshua Montgomery and I’ve decided to help finish this project.
I’m the founder of https://mycroft.ai ( the open source world’s voice assistant ) and last year I purchased a coffee farm in Kona, Hawaii.
I have a pretty nice makerspace here in Hawaii and would like to make this coffee sorter a reality. I think there is a lot of value to be created for the global community of coffee growers by creating an inexpensive sorter that can be built in a makerspace.
I’d like to make a rev 1.0 of this machine, then do a sprint here in Hawaii with some of the core members of this team in the fall ( during the harvest ) so we can test out the machine. I’ve got plenty of lodging here and am willing to help with airfare for core contributors.
In keeping with the open source ethos, all drawings, STL files, documentation, software and data will be open and available to the world. That said, we are building a coffee brand and want to build a machine to help sort our coffee accurately.
Here is our label, in case you’re interested.
I’m looking forward to meeting with everyone!