RE: Safe and Sound Wearables- Hearing Guard System #15: Final Post - Incomplete

DAB — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:47:24 GMT

Hi John,

Finding issues with the technology is one of the objectives of the challenge.

As the old saying goes "If it was easy, everyone would do it!"

Still I do greatly sympathize with your problems. Getting sidetracked by a piece of "off the shelf" software is something every engineer experiences.

Reminds of the time they sent me down to Huntsville, Alabama because the project team was stumped trying to run a piece of software to decode some data.

I flew down, met the team and started listening to what they had and what they were doing. I immediately recognized that the data was in 2's complement form, at which the lead programmer did a face plant, rushed to his computer, added a few lines of code and the problem was solved. Took me all of about twenty minutes.

Sometimes, you just need a fresh pair of eyes looking at the problem.

DAB

RE: Safe and Sound Wearables- Hearing Guard System #15: Final Post - Incomplete

dougw — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 02:35:35 GMT

You ran smack into my biggest fear: "issues with software I didn't write". You end up spending all your time trying to figure out what they did or didn't do and don't have any time left to do what you wanted to do. It is especially risky with new products and new applications where there aren't a lot of others to learn from. It is good to see you sticking with it all the way to the end. It says a lot about your character.