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What is the Skywalker Roaster (SW/Skitop)? Skywalker Roaster is a Horizontal IR Drumroaster from Foshan Akimita Household co. What so special about this roaster? The Skywalker roaster is priced affordably, currently under $420 as of 2/25/24. It offers easy ...

This was summarized by Renatoa he runs the Home Roaster Forum. A flat RoR indicates how radiation delivers energy relative to bean temperature. Difference comes from underlying heat transfer physics. Convection heat transfer rate follows Newton's Law of Cooli...

The Skywalker is no stranger to overheating issues. One of the first big issues was thermal runaway due to overheating thyristor. Now with the increasing reports of E3 errors and drum motors no longer turning the issue of overheating drum motor is the next big...

SnowBear Firmware Installation Kaleido currently uses Classic Bluetooth to talk to HiBean  a dated standard that, importantly, isn't supported on iOS at all. This project is a workaround that finally brings Kaleido connectivity to iPhones and iPads. It also pa...

Kaliedo Roaster Protocol Quick command reference for Artisan / HiBean serial control Format Conventions Instruction stream uses {[ as prefix and ]} as suffix. Data stream uses { as prefix and } as suffix. Responses start with sid (status byte). All keywords ar...

Kaleido Roaster Communication Protocol This project documents the reverse-engineered communication protocol used by Kaleido coffee roasters and provides the information needed to interface with the roaster using custom hardware and software. Protocol Overview ...

Connecting the Skywalker PKF-1KG to HiBean via Bluetooth Here is a starting point for connecting a Skywalker PKF-1KG coffee roaster to HiBean via Bluetooth. Hopefully this helps shorten your journey—and gives an old man a place to remember where to start over....