A Rutgers University project aims to make those sorts of automations easy for anyone to add to their household appliances, with a little help the graphical programming language Scratch.

Finally, it would be really really neat if Scratch could have even a simple networking stack. A networking stack would open up an entire universe of new opportunities for Scratch programing. Since ...

In an attempt to calculate its real cost—and to prepare himself for life on a desert island—he set out to build a toaster from scratch.