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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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Gazebo out of scaffolding

Today we completed our gazebo, which we designed and built out of scaffolding:

Picture of gazebo

Scaffolding is fairly expensive but building things out of it is enormous fun! You can see a complete sequence of the build process, including pictures of the "engineering maquette", at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/2020/scaffold/

Post-lockdown maybe I will build a climbing wall or something out of it...

edited 2020-11-08 20:44Z to fix img url following hosting reorg