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Nobody likes washing dishes, but they keep piling up. The new Capsule Solo portable dishwasher from Loch Electronics is designed to make short work of that chore even while camping.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Dishwasher, D… Continue reading Portable dishwasher makes short work of your least favorite chore
It all started with a vague error code (shown in the image above) on [nophead]’s Bosch SMS88TW01G/01 dishwasher, and it touched off a months-long repair nightmare that even involved a …read more Continue reading Dishwasher Repair Nightmare: Chasing Down 3 Faults
Has it really come to this? Are we really at the point that dishwashers have proprietary detergent cartridges that you’re locked into buying at inflated prices? Apparently so, at least …read more Continue reading Detergent DRM Defeated on Diminutive Dishwasher
[Billy] was no fan of doing the dishes, but also found commercial solutions lacking. The options on the market simply didn’t fit his cookware and flatware. Instead of compromising, he set out to build a dishwasher of his own design.
The build consists of a whole heap of hardware all …read more
Dishwashers are great at washing dishes and even rinsing them, most of the time. Where they tend to fail is in the drying part. Somehow these things dry hot enough to warp stoneware dishes, but not so well that things are actually dry when you open the door. Blame it …read more
There’s a story that goes back to the 1980s or so about an engineering professor who laid down a challenge to the students of his automation class: design a robot to perform the most mundane of household tasks — washing the dishes. The students divided up into groups, batted ideas …read more
Continue reading Robotic Dishwashers and Dishwashing as a Service
No matter how mad your 3D printing skills may be, there comes a time when it makes more sense to order a replacement part than print it. For [billchurch], that time was the five-hour window he had to order an OEM part online and have it delivered within two days. The race was on — would he be able to model and print a replacement latch for his dishwasher’s detergent dispenser, or would suffer the ignominy of having to plunk down $30 for a tiny but complicated part?
As you can probably guess, [bill] managed to beat the clock. But …read more
Continue reading Repairs You Can Print: Racing the Clock for a Dishwasher Fix
As if Windows Update wasn’t bad enough, one has to deal with a plethora of attention-hungry programs and utilities all begging for a continual stream of patches from the Internet. It’s exhausting, but unfortunately also par for the course. Many of these updates are to close security vulnerabilities that could otherwise expose your computer to undesirables. The Internet of Things will only expand the amount of hardware and software you need to keep updated and protected on a daily basis. Now, it’s your dishwasher that’s under attack.
The Register reports that Jens Regel discovered the bug in a Miele dishwasher …read more
Continue reading 2017: The Year of the Dishwasher Security Patch
Despite all kinds of internet-connected things getting pwned, manufacturers insist of putting stuff on the internet without any security. Continue reading A Hackable Dishwasher Is Connecting Hospitals to the Internet of Shit