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Heard from a greybeard that they had a demo night in university (this was probably early 80s), and one of the demos was was some sort of path-finding rover robo

Heard from a greybeard that they had a demo night in university (this was probably early 80s), and one of the demos was was some sort of path-finding rover robot. Of course, it ended up being one of those projects that had show stopping bugs up until a few hours before showtime. During demo night, it was a big hit, until a stray camera flash got (un)lucky and wiped the microcontroller's EEPROM... Feels a little apocryphal (I'd assume most flashes have / had UV filters?)

avidiax 3y ago
This still happens today. Some chip packaging doesn't provide enough protection from UV. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99042 https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=99042
asciimov 3y ago
You would have put some tape over the window to keep that from happening. Also erasing takes like 15+ mins, it wasn’t quick.