Engineering is about constraints. Any damned fool can build a 10km suspension bridge given enough unobtanium and micraculum. That's cheating. You can get quite

Engineering is about constraints. Any damned fool can build a 10km suspension bridge given enough unobtanium and micraculum. That's cheating. You can get quite interesting and very creative solutions when you apply artificial constraints. This stuff happens in the real-world all the time, especially in consumer electronics. I've had to do video-rate unpacking of samples that were aligned on really nasty boundaries. Far cheaper (in this instance) to do it in software . . . so we got clever.