Voice activation, one-touch cooking, web controls, cooking settings based on UPC… have you ever seen a microwave with all of these features? We sure haven’t. We believed it was great that ours have a reheat button with three different settings. but holy crap, what if you could actually program your microwave to the exact settings of your choice? You can, if you let a Raspberry Pi do the cooking.

This hack run deep and results in a final product with a high WAF. Nathan started by taking apart his old microwave. He took photos of the versatile sheets that comprise the manage button matrix in buy to reverse engineer their design. This led him to etch his own circuit card to hook the inputs as much as a Raspberry Pi board and take command of all the appliance’s other hardware. because it also drives the seven segment display you’ll never see the wrong time on this appliance again. It’s set based on NTP.

We pointed out you can modify settings for a certain food. the very best method of doing this is shown in the demo video. The web interface is utilized to program the settings. recalling them is as basic as utilizing the barcode reader to scan the UPC. Amazing.

Now you can keep that old microwave working, rather than just scraping it for parts.

[Thanks Tom]