A developer pirate his coffee maker
You may be part of the “Café in the morning” team, which is seen as a fuel for certain and essential to start the day off right. But sometimes your coffee maker dysfunction at certain times or drops you completely. Gabriel Ciubotaru has noticed that hers lacked simple functions and made an unexpected decision.
Everything starts from an energy saving function
His initiative would have come from a problem he encountered quite often. Indeed, her coffee maker tended to go out automatically when she had been on for 30 minutes. In reality, it was a function of energy saving integrated into the coffee machine system during its design.
But the software developer noticed that each ignition, a filtration cycle started, and was included in the famous 30 minutes. It therefore opened the machine, removed the motherboard and located the microcontroller, which allows you to manage the tasks of the coffee maker, before identifying the programmed system to automatically stop the machine. Even if it seems simple, the rest will be a little more complex.
100 hours of hacking for a daily gain of 30 sec
It was now necessary to find in a fed up, the lines that had to be changed for the coffee maker to go out when Gabriel Ciubotaru wanted it. Still according to the Hispanic media, he managed to find the code which controls the warning icons displayed on the coffee maker screen.
After modifying the code, he downloaded it in the microcontroller, and thus obtained the coffee maker he wanted. At first glance, the stages seem simple, but they are actually more complex than that, as explained by the developer during the conference. In total, this hacking took him no less than 100 hours of his time to save only 30 seconds of use per day.
Source: Xataka
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