Posted on 12/11/2015
In our generation of microcontroller-enhanced everything, it has been frustrating at best to see how often the capability of smart hardware has been foiled by the design of poorly purposed software
We have image sensors at intersections, automobiles with computers many times faster than the operators’ reflexes, computer answering systems that can even recognize speech, smartphones with built-in everything, just to name a few.
However, in my experience, too much of this capability is wasted or countermanded by software/firmware having malformed purposes. We as ...