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Ye well I agree. As sibling comment pointed out I rather have a chip then a motor driven timer switch with fancy grooves. My point is that simple systems like
by rightbyte 6y ago
Ye well I agree. As sibling comment pointed out I rather have a chip then a motor driven timer switch with fancy grooves.
My point is that simple systems like coffee cookers don't benefit much from having microcontrollers and you introduce alot of complexity.
My 3yo Mocca Master just have a timing relay and a switch for the aux. heater.
If they added a IC to have eg. a 'smart heater' or what ever the complexity and risk for making design errors would explode. With two switches you can enumerate the states of the system. With code you can't just look at the coffee machine and figure out exactly how it works while reviewing the design for production.
No code, no bugs.
- tomxor 6y agoIf it's added complexity for no fundamental improvement to the device then I'd agree it's bad. I find that avoiding buying devices with "smart" in the name eliminates most such designs... i'm starting to worry about the availability of dumb cars in the future though (consider that dumb cars are packed full of microelectronics and sensors that do a fantastic job of managing the engine, they work more independently, simply, almost mechanically compared to the "smart" bits).
- Dylan16807 6y agoI don't know, I wouldn't automatically assume that an arbitrary timing relay is more reliable than an arbitrary 8-bit chip. And it's pretty easy to debug ten lines of code.