About Liberated Bread
Liberated Bread is a project by Pigs Can Fly Labs LLC — a small business that likes to do cool shit with hardware. We publish step-by-step guides for liberating abandoned IoT devices from dead cloud services.
What We Do
When a company shuts down its cloud servers, "smart" devices often become paperweights. Liberated Bread publishes guides that walk you through keeping those devices working — offline, local, and free. Every guide includes:
- What you're liberating from — the dead cloud service or proprietary lock-in
- Step-by-step instructions — router config, Home Assistant setup, 3D-printed hardware mods
- Safety-first documentation — mandatory de-energize steps for any hardware work
- Protocol reference — links to machine-readable specs in liberatedbread-protocol-specs
The Name
Liberated Bread is an homage to Cory Doctorow's novella Unauthorized Bread, in which refugees jailbreak locked-down appliances to cook and survive. The ethos is simple: you own your own devices.
Pigs Can Fly Labs LLC
Liberated Bread is a project of Pigs Can Fly Labs LLC. We're a small business, not a non-profit. Our incentives are simple: do cool shit, stay out of trouble, and maybe sell some devices. The content is and always will be free.
Contact
- GitHub: github.com/liberatedbread
- Discord: Pigs Can Fly Labs server —
#liberated-breadchannel - Mastodon: @liberatedbread@hachyderm.io
- RSS: liberatedbread.com/feed.xml
These guides are for hardware you own. Use common sense. Pigs Can Fly Labs LLC isn't responsible for bricked devices, voided warranties, or angry IoT cloud providers.