Enigmaker

Looks like this never got synced with the website. The unveiling was in this tweet

I did a bunch of experimentation to see if I could wire into the smoke alarm before realising that it's likely to have radioactive material in the sensor (isn't the optical kind as I was hoping). I then proceeded to melt it.

For now, suffice it to say that the mechanism is merely to monitor the smoke alarm, and then deactivate the mains power to the toaster when smoke is detected. That way, no matter what you're toasting, how dry or moist the bread, whether it's sugar coated or not, you should never have to adjust the timing wheel in that arbitrary way which goes...

• Turn it down to 2 so it doesn't burn
• wait a bit
• see it pop up and test it - hardly warm
• put it down for another go
• return to a smoke filled kitchen and a kind of Pompeiian pop tart

Since I've re-ordered the parts for this one, I'll have another go with a real particle sensor, rather than something ripped out of a smoke alarm.