Gleb Polyakov and Igor Zamlinsky are Kickstarting this project:

We’re making a commercial-quality espresso machine at a consumer-friendly price. There are basically two kinds of home espresso machines on the market today. The affordable models have no good mechanism of temperature or pressure control. These machines can’t pull consistent shots.But we’re engineers, and we knew that we could design a machine that was just as good as the expensive models – for less. And because we’re coffee enthusiasts ourselves, we kept the consumer experience in mind, and included features that we ourselves lusted after in an affordable machine.No other machine at this price point offers high-end quality, PID-controlled customizable temperature and pressure, pre-infusion, or shot-time settings – we do.

Coffee is important – don’t argue. Good coffee is great and great coffee can be sublime. This Kickstarter espresso machine project is already fully funded at over $330,000 and makes me wish I had gotten in on the ground floor and wish I had $300. It’s a coffee machine by geeks for geeks!