# xBloom Studio Hacking

> Reverse-engineering the xBloom Studio coffee maker's NFC cards to brew my own custom recipes.

- Status: active
- Started: 2026-02-07
- Category: Hardware
- Tags: coffee, nfc, reverse-engineering

xBloom is my project to take control of the xBloom Studio coffee maker. The machine reads brew recipes off NFC cards; I've been reverse-engineering that card format so I can write my own — dialing in grind, dose, water, and pour-schedule recipes the manufacturer never shipped.

It's part coffee obsession, part reverse-engineering puzzle: capture the cards, decode the format, then encode custom recipes and actually drink the results. There's a recipe library and a growing pile of research notes behind it.