How embedded systems work: the hidden computers in everyday things, and how engineers build them
Hardware testing: why some device bugs only show up after 49 days
A device can pass every test on a desk and still fail in a garden in January, or on its 50th day in a home. Its testers try to live a whole year of that life in a few weeks, and one of their tricks fools the clock.
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Rono takes the flap to the test room of a lab he works with. The tester who runs it asks one question first: where will this flap live, and for how long?
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The answer is a list: frost and summer heat, rain, batteries that slowly run down, a busy flap, and a whole year of all that. A desk shows none of it.
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