Tune the washing machine chip for aggressive popcorn effect on deceleration, vroooom!

ah... https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-universal-washing-mac...

I’ve been having good luck buying pieces of part-outs on eBay for old appliances.

Someone will take a machine apart and list all of the pieces individually. It’s a fraction of the price of a new one. It’s a used part so it’s a gamble, but they can be so cheap I just buy two and have a spare.

I fixed a malfunctioning refrigerator by replacing the control board, which happened to be a PIC16-based device used by many brands. This design is as close to "universal" as you can get, and this generic board was around 20% the price of the official replacement part.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/152763501102

If everyone had a Miele washing machine and put it on their front porch facing the street, maybe.

Did you know that with a strong enough LED pointed through a window into the living room they could also disrupt TVs by changing the channel or even turning them off remotely!

No, obviously not.

I know HN loves Miele, but they are very Apple like when it comes to repair — they don’t make their parts available to the public and since a few years neither to independent repair shops.

In contrast I had a great experience repairing a Smeg stove and buying all the necessary parts directly from them, so it’s not like it’s impossible.