Hello, I have a bread machine that works perfectly (Please resist the 'if it is'nt broke don't fix it. reply.) however, it does not have the capability to do what I want it to do evidently. I have a little knowledge, very little compared to many of you I am sure, in electronics, decent knowledge in computers, including assembly lang, and a few others. I know assembly won;t help me here more than likely, but to allow you to know I am semi comfortable with hex code, memory manipulation and addressing/and slightly how logic works internally, but not so much in signal/chip controlling, but I can learn hopefully.
anyways, My bread machine does not allow me to just put some pre-made dough in it, then it will let it rise, then bake it. I have to put all the ingredients in it, then let it mix and then knead and then rise and then bake them, and it takes hours to make bread, when in reality, the bake time should only take a fraction of that time, and I have no desire to wait.
My thought is, that internally there obviously is a controller circuit, and that circuit clearly has 'routines' in it that take the machine through it's programmed path....ie timing routine that delays so many hours, before handing the logic over to the knead/paddle moving cycle, which then goes through a delay, then paddles some more, delays some more for rising, then controls the heating element, probably through timing of off and on, or controlled by a thermal coupler for a certain amount of time/etc....
My question is this...is there a way for me to change that and add what I want into it? actually I know there is a way...someone built it in the first place, someone can rebuild it in the second place, surely, but obviously I do not know how the best way to go about doing it is.
My thoughts on doing it, are probably infantile and ignorant...but I am wondering if I can do something like, remove the main chip, (I think it is the one on the left that has p12-319 sd04 fk84 9832h on it) somehow dump whatever is on it, modify the coding and burn it onto another chip to duplicate it, put in a DIL socket and be on my merry way, or am I just to ignorant to know better? and of course, I've done none of this at all before so would more then likely be asking how if you said yes. the other two chips have 74hc164ap 9818h on them....I looked them up and am taking them to be shift registers, either for only the timing, or displaying which lights/modes are operating at the moment, so I am thinking I don't have to mess with those? at least not in removing them or changing them? here is a picture of the circuit board. it attaches to another board in the machine, but I am thinking that is mostly the power controller/etc.
anyways I know it's a weird project....but I'm sure many here have done weirder, and no doubt cooler ones. Thanks in advance, for helping me get a clue.
anyways, My bread machine does not allow me to just put some pre-made dough in it, then it will let it rise, then bake it. I have to put all the ingredients in it, then let it mix and then knead and then rise and then bake them, and it takes hours to make bread, when in reality, the bake time should only take a fraction of that time, and I have no desire to wait.
My thought is, that internally there obviously is a controller circuit, and that circuit clearly has 'routines' in it that take the machine through it's programmed path....ie timing routine that delays so many hours, before handing the logic over to the knead/paddle moving cycle, which then goes through a delay, then paddles some more, delays some more for rising, then controls the heating element, probably through timing of off and on, or controlled by a thermal coupler for a certain amount of time/etc....
My question is this...is there a way for me to change that and add what I want into it? actually I know there is a way...someone built it in the first place, someone can rebuild it in the second place, surely, but obviously I do not know how the best way to go about doing it is.
My thoughts on doing it, are probably infantile and ignorant...but I am wondering if I can do something like, remove the main chip, (I think it is the one on the left that has p12-319 sd04 fk84 9832h on it) somehow dump whatever is on it, modify the coding and burn it onto another chip to duplicate it, put in a DIL socket and be on my merry way, or am I just to ignorant to know better? and of course, I've done none of this at all before so would more then likely be asking how if you said yes. the other two chips have 74hc164ap 9818h on them....I looked them up and am taking them to be shift registers, either for only the timing, or displaying which lights/modes are operating at the moment, so I am thinking I don't have to mess with those? at least not in removing them or changing them? here is a picture of the circuit board. it attaches to another board in the machine, but I am thinking that is mostly the power controller/etc.
anyways I know it's a weird project....but I'm sure many here have done weirder, and no doubt cooler ones. Thanks in advance, for helping me get a clue.