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This isn't about tinkering with your own microwave, is a product someone is developing which uses Linux. Source: I was in the room for the original conference

• hilbert42 4y ago
  Sorry, that's immaterial. The article shows a microwave oven with its cover off and being modified without any adequate safety warnings and that's unacceptable and irresponsible. QED! In case that's not clear, the conference organizers/authors of the article were careless and irresponsible for not discussing safety at the outset. You need to aware that microwave ovens and the misuse of their transformers is a major cause of electrocutions. BTW, I'm no whingeing safety touter or campaigner by a long shot, and I'm not timid or scared of electricity but I'm respectfull of it. In the past I've had to climb FM and television masts with the transmitters still running and power to the antennae - many 10s of kW of RF energy radiating. There was so much RF energy that it used to arc off the tower and onto my knees and burn holes in my jeans and turn the LCD in my watch a black color. Nevertheless, that work was far less dangerous than working on a microwave oven without taking adequate precautions. Incidentally, my training and certification requires me to bring such dangerous situations to the attention of those involved.