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How the hell do you build hardware remotely?

• stbtrax 13y ago
  If you're doing firmware/software people can just mail you devkits, proto boards.
  • happywolf 13y ago
    devkits and proto boards do have bugs, especially during the early iterations. There are many occasions that I (firmware engineer) need to sit down with FPGA/Hardware engineers to figure out why the system is not performing as designed, sometimes it is firmware issue, sometimes it is hardware, and it was the combination of firmware/hardware and ambient temperature!! It is way more ineffective to perform this kind of debugging with someone in a remote site.
  • okey 13y ago
    That could be quite time inefficient, depending on where you live...
• empthought 13y ago
  "The majority of people here are doing low-level systems programming, usually networking related, and a handful of people are doing data analysis (call it big data, if you like) to figure out how to optimize Google's next generation hardware and software platforms."