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Tassimo TA1200

Welcome to the Tassimo Hacking Wiki. Here you will find resources and links that relate to "black box" reverse engineering the Tassimo Hot Beverage Dispensing System via its T-DISC product barcodes.

The ultimate objective of this exercise is purely for fun and education and to learn more about how the Tassimo operating system works through empirical experiments and observation.

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1. OneOfSix Blog Posts:

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2. Hacking Resources:

Source Documents

Beverage Machine (via Google Patent Search)
Coffe Machine (via Google Patent Search)

Machine for the preparation of beverages (2006)(via Google Patent Search)
Machine for the preparation of beverages (2007) (via Google Patent Search)
Machine for the preparation of beverages (2008)(via Google Patent Search)
Cartridge, a Machine, a System and a Method for the Preparation of Beverages (2008) (via Google Patent Search)
Machine for the preparation of beverages (2009)(via Google Patent Search)
Machine For The Preparation Of Beverages (2010) (via Google Patent Search)

Cartridge for the preparation of beverages and a method for manufacturing a cartridge (2004) (via Google Patent Search)
Coffe Pod (T-Disc) (2005) (via Google Patent Search)
Cartridge for the preparation of beverages (2007) (via Google Patent Search)
Cartridge for the preparation of beverages (2008) (via Google Patent Search)
Beverage Cartridge (2009) (via Google Patent Search)
Cartridge and method for the preparation of beverages (2010) (via Google Patent Search)

Try a patent search with the keys 'Andrew Halliday' , 'Adam Lloyd', 'Kraft' for more patents regarding Tassimo Technology

Barcodes and Symbology

Declawing a :CueCat for use as a barcode scanner.
Wasp Technologies Online Barcode Generator
Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcode Symbology FAQ
Universal Product Code - via Wikipedia

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3. T-DISCs:

See the TDiscBaselines page for empirical measurements of the Tassimo's operation parameters for a variety of beverage "programs".
See the TDiscDecoding page for information on decoding T-DISC beverage programs.
See the TassimoBarcodeCreator page for information on a tool to create your own barcodes for Tassimo.