Hacking my filter coffee machine

I hacked my coffee machine to let me turn it on from upstairs in bed :-). Read on for explanation, circuit diagrams, 3D models, firmware source code, and pictures.

• Background: the Morphy Richards filter coffee machine
• Planning
• Inside the Morphy Richards filter coffee machine
• Unexpected electrical hazard
• Design approach
• Implementation - hardware
• Implementation - software
• Results
• Epilogue
• Bonus pictures

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