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I'm certain there's a niche in replacing the dmca protected garbage wholesale with a completely different board on some appliances. Wish I had the capital to tr

• HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
  People do this all the time, but it's not marketed. When the control board for my washer died, I came across a bunch of Arduino projects to replace controls with new hardware. As an embedded systems engineer, I even considered designing a replacement controller, but that thought died the instant I found one for $30 on eBay. That, and the reality of the situation is that when I can buy a replacement washer for $400, I have no incentive to spend dozens of hours redesigning a control. Maybe if I was bored and wanted to create an OSHW project that maybe 5 other people on the planet would use.