Rancilio-Silvia

The Setup: Modding a Rancilio Silvia

I’m hacking my Rancilio Silvia espresso machine with a Raspberry Pi Zero W running Elixir/Nerves. The goal? PID temperature control for better espresso. When I decided to add a TSIC306 temperature sensor, I knew it’d be tricky, but I didn’t know how tricky.

Here’s the thing about embedded systems work: you can’t plan what you don’t understand yet. And I needed some way to stay organized without drowning in project management overhead.