Washing Machine Teardown

By Paul Kedrosky · Monday, May 14, 2007 ·
I have a new front-loading LG TROMM uber washer/dryer combo that is just too waaay too much fun. Lots of flashing lights, nifty knobs, chimes, communication thingies, and cool geegaws, all juiced up with minimal water usage and less current draw than your average laptop. Makes laundry almost fun.

While I won't do it, at least for now, I would really like to do a teardown. What CPU is in this thing? How much program memory? How does it do load sensing? Is there an accelerometer involved? Inquiring launderers want to know.
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