Month: November 2007

Hacking the Tassimo single-serve coffee machine

If you like coffee and a little cryptanalysis in the morning, here’s a really interesting hack-in-progress: figuring out the coding used to program beverages in the Tassimo coffee machine. Chris R. Chapman writes: I’ve been working on reverse-engineering the Braun Tassimo T1200/T1400 hot beverage system from its barcoded T-DISC brewing pods. The barcodes are used […]

Crafting on This American Life

I was talking to my brother about making people gifts for the holidays and he told me I should listen to This American Life when David Rakoff discusses crafting as a job with the crafts department at Martha Stewart Living and the idea of giving people handmade presents. Part three with David Rakoff begins at […]