How does an Italian cafetiere works and how can I use it?

So, how does an Italian cafetiere work? Well the water in the water container is heated until near ebullition, increasing the volume and pushing the very hot water up  the funnel. At the end of the funnel the first filter will help spreading the water trough the coffee holder, where the water will be emerged with the coffee powder creating the coffee liquid. Now the water will keep pushing from the water container and pressing the coffee liquid trough a second filter that prevents the coffee powder from coming out with the coffee. The schematics of all of this can be seen in this image:



 How can I use this to make my alarm clock with a coffee maker? Well, the theory is that all the parts to make this kind of cafetiere are easily available. Now, by adding a weight sensor to make sure that there is water in the water holder before activating the heating plate and some isolation elements to make sure the heating doesn't burn the rest of the components it shouldn't be super hard to make it work. The schematics to this are here:


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