I made it to save time and mess.
Filling dosing capsules was fiddly and tedious, especially when I was preparing a few days' worth or heading out and wanted to take some with me. Grind, open the grinder, then fill each capsule with a little scoop and a pinch, one pod at a time. I'd be lucky if I didn't spill any.
The filling trays I tried didn't fix it. They're made to fill 40 capsules in one go, which means grinding weeks' worth at once, and ground herb starts drying out the moment it's ground. By the end of a batch it's harsh and has lost its flavour. You still had to move it from the grinder to the tray by hand, too. What I wanted was to fill a day's worth, fresh, straight from the grinder.
So I set out to engineer one. Every version was modelled, printed and tested against the grinder's thread, the funnel angles and how each capsule seats, then refined and tested again. More than thirty iterations later, the herb drops straight from the grinder into five capsules, evenly, with nothing left on the table.
I use it every day. Now I'm making a small batch for anyone else who wants to save the time and the mess.
Ollie, founder of Orange Magnolia








