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Raj:
I wanna hear some. (Problems that are so stupid, that they are not worth your time to solve, but the solution is stupidly obvious too)
 :blah:
I'll start with one.

So, Apple wanted to make a charging pad into which you plop on your phone and it starts to charge, regardless of the position of is in. They started messing with multiple coils and what not

Just make the pad a bit thicker and insert an xy gantry that repositions the coil underneath the phone...: Job done
A 2d tredmil on top that repositions the phone will work too.. Or a combination, like tredmil for x axis and internal mechanism for y axis

engrguy42:
Y'know, in some ways I feel kinda sorry for the engineers and marketers working on consumer electronics stuff.

Like Apple...hell, every year they need to figure out some cool new feature for their smartphones that somehow they can convince people they need, and moreover that consumers are willing to pay freakin' thousands of $$$ for. Must be tough. Okay, now you need big smartphones. Okay, they have big, let's make small phones the new thing...

Kinda like the big screen TV nonsense. Okay, now we have 4k (which people can't even see the resolution difference, even though they'll never admit it...). And next they need to come up with something new? Like 8K? Are you freakin' serious?

And all this Alexa/AI crap so people can sit on their butts all day and not have to get up out of their sofas?

And self driving cars? Seriously?

Rerouter:
Vehicle needed to be speed limited, but customer did not want to pay for a proper system, there was already a warning light on the dash when they where speeding, so when that light comes on, a buzzer sounds and a timer relay starts, 5 seconds later the door position switch is interrupted by the timer, the bus thinks the door is open and the vehicle is moving, so the bus interlocks the throttle back to idle with a big solenoid, so very stupid, but the customer was happy.

Next up, a bus comes out from a factory with the wrong calibration from the transmission, I had no way to make the system meet that calibration, the solution, reprogram the speedo to think its range was 335kmph instead of 120kmph, I still have no idea why they didn't just get the dealer to fix it, the odometer is counting up 3x faster than normal

Mahindra did not build in a way for there dealers to calibrate the dash to all the variety of tire sizes they can supply them in, solution? figure out what it should read with the largest possible tire size, and just set it accordingly, this means the default tire size has the speedo reading 100kmph when the vehicle is only doing about 77kmph via GPS

Raj:

--- Quote from: Rerouter on May 22, 2020, 11:56:54 am ---Mahindra did not build in a way for there dealers to calibrate the dash to all the variety of tire sizes they can supply them in, solution? figure out what it should read with the largest possible tire size, and just set it accordingly, this means the default tire size has the speedo reading 100kmph when the vehicle is only doing about 77kmph via GPS

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Mahindra?  :-DD As expected from Indian engineers. They do exactly what management needs...nothing less, nothing more.

--- Quote from: engrguy42 on May 22, 2020, 11:35:19 am ---Like Apple...hell, every year they need to figure out some cool new feature for their smartphones that somehow they can convince people they need

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Unfortunately...I don't think, engineers have much say in apple.Otherwise the phone would have started to resemble a swiss army knife with various features. Take Ir blaster for eg. Samsung had it...(I used it a lot to control my TV and AC), Now they don't.(couldn't cram an 0402 led)
With the amount of power apple has, they could have made the whole industry switch to 1.5mm or even 0.5mm headphone jack...but they didn't.
What they do allow them to do is,malicious, like keep the cable in laptop display hinge, just short enough to break after a month of regular use

Syntax Error:
I'm minded to remember the Palm Pre, a mobile phone that was a decade too late. I should know, we were developing an app for the Pre, but only with the SDK, because there were problems with the release of physical handsets to the developer community. We had to travel to London just to touch one (sad). It's USP was the wireless charging hub, which is why the Pre had a chunky a**. For induction charging read induction hob. It died a death and went straight to silicon hell.

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