gaggiuino

The emphasis in this comparison is on the Gaggiuino mod, which does all the magic (profile based brewing).

Interesting dive into the now closed source Gaggiuino mod which looks like it has code to brock non-official hardware.

It's mentioned in the article, but the Gaggiuino project is a really nice base if you like tinkering with this kind of stuff.

Get a used Rancilio Silvia + do a fully fledged Gaggiuino build.

Lance Hedrick in his latest video (review of Decent XL) mentions that he got the Gaggiuino parts, but haven't got around to building it.

For this group, gaggiuino[0] is extremely fun for the hardware+coffee people.

Honestly the whole Gaggiuino situation is so stupid it's unbelievable.

A vibratory pump is very good at controlling pressure as demonstrated by the Decent espresso machine the Gaggiuino mod and whatever that Rancilio Silva mod is called.

I’ve been on the fence about whether to build a Gaggiuino myself, or sell the GCP and upgrade to a dual boiler machine.

You could build a Gaggiuino for less money and the same effort, but you'd be left with a far lower quality piece of hardware as the Gaggia hardware has a shitty boiler, plumbing, group, and casing.

Let's use "Gagguino" to mean "the authors of the original Gagguino" and "Faceuino" to mean "the guy on facebook" just to make it easier to explain the situation: Faceuino started selling his own kit based on the Gaggiuino designs with some modifications.

The Meticulous is a lower end competition with the Decent Espresso DE1, or a more upscale version of the DIY stuff like Gaggiuino.

Gaggiuino Gen 3 is free to use and will offer free software updates, but the source code is no longer available.

Gaggiuino give you equivalent machine value of $3k machine for under $1k aud.