In Reply to: Engineering, my man, is an iterative process. posted by clarkjohnsen on June 6, 2008 at 08:33:15:
"Always tinker, always modify. Listening, seeing, trying, testing... these are the necessary, hands-on, eyes-on, ears-on steps towards a prototype or a product."
Why do all this if you've nailed everything on the first pass? Sure, first try successes in complex, high tech, devices are not hugely not common but you do believe it is possible don't you?
"You think a device is born whole, from imagination?"
Pretty much. It happens to me all the time for simpler designs. I don't see why this is unimaginable for simple designs.
"All the hot air to which I was referring, never managed to blow the smallest breeze across anyone's ears. It was just a gabble of useless talking. No engineering there!"
You may or may not be right. That remains to be seen.
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Follow Ups
- Not always. It is possible to succeed on the first try. - Ugly 06/6/0812:45:55 06/6/08 (6)
- Nailing everything on the first pass. Now there's a concept to... - clarkjohnsen 08:49:07 06/7/08 (0)
- Agreed - we're talking about a simple filter, after all - tomsyl1 15:59:28 06/6/08 (2)
- Took apart a NH - unclestu52 20:34:20 06/6/08 (1)
- RE: Took apart a NH - tomsyl1 02:32:10 06/8/08 (0)
- Always tinker.... - unclestu52 13:19:35 06/6/08 (1)
- Sure it does. It's an important distinction to make between product development and maintenance. - Ugly 15:43:18 06/6/08 (0)