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Yes we had several cartoons like that in our development drawing office

Unfortunately reading users mines is very difficult to make designs fool proof as fools are so inventive in finding ways to misuse...

An interesting viewpoint. Always worth applying Sod's Law to anything, especially software design. I spent the last part of my...

Ease of use of any technical bit of kit is one of the most important design features. Applications that succeed have an easy to...

This sums up the issue. I've played with it, and I can see lots of possible benefits, but it is not a simple case of plug this into...

Most people don't want to monitor the temperature of their fridge 24x7 and produce graphs of it. They want to see their speed, depth...

A lot of open source software struggles with the documentation. It's often written for the techie, by the techie who wrote the software...

I don't claim to be an expert - but your diagram included certainly doesn't give much reassurance that it is yet a mature product for...

So can you point to a commercially available box sold with the necessary processor (eg Pi) pre-installed with the necessary software, in...

Signal K sounds like a great idea - but not everybody wants to play at DIY electronics and/or programming. Is there a site somewhere...

Do I love my boat? How could I not?

Yes. I hate her sometimes too.

She still scares me but a little less than she did.

The XC40 is an impressive bit of kit, but nearly 8 years old now. This is from September 2021: Running the Harmonie numerical weather...

My understanding is that the computer the met office is using is a Cray XC40 super computer. Not really your average cloud computing...