âoerocket engine that doesn't end in an uncontrolled explosion is a good thing."
The industry thinks âoeexplosionâ is a unspoken word and prefers âoerapid unscheduled disassemblyâ

"Remaining good Eye." FTFY

I have two locations in Texas using rural internet delivery, one is 60$ per month. The other is 125$ a month. One site is less than a mile from the tower, the other is 17.7 miles from the tower. The one costing 125$ a month get heavy use, close to a TB per month, and is rock solid, and a good company, never any drops or "netflix" hour slowdowns. The 60$ a month is owned by a national rural carrier, and is the closer to the tower, it experiences overloading, downtime etc. It is obvious the backhaul is not enough. Honestly I prefer paying more for reliability. BTW they both use the same equipment, but I did pay for my own equipment with the more expensive one, and did opt for a licensed band transceiver. Cant say enough for a good company www.ranchwireless.com verses www.risebroadband.com

Our products are not for consumers. Our products are super expensive, pretty much 10 times COT's. The required manufacturing Flow Control Documents, Quality Control Documents, Identification Documents, recording of all of the above on paper, and proper filings makes up 90% of the cost of the parts.
Documentation of API requires changes from both our company and customer, so you even need a little wag of that cost to add into the part. Or in some cases, where our customer likes to change all of the above, its about 5K every time they want to change anything before the next build.

Otherwise for COTS having available online PDF of your language flavor I think is preferred.

So ya go ahead and skip the 25% and 50% test, just flip that big switch for me will ya already!

Maybe he should watch Rocket Farmer once or twice. Or maybe he's been watching it to much..

I agree, 62 doing what I like, yes still working, coding, designing, mentoring, and proud to build important products. I can walk in a walmart and point out products I have touched, you have phones with sensors I have touched. Space shuttle has parts I have built by hand, the newest airplanes both commercial and military fly with products I got to help design, build, test and deliver. Write in many old languages :) assembler, C, VB, or what ever is best for the project.

Played with web stuff, found it boring. Prefer different path, and am enjoying it. Not rich enough to buy a large farm, but have a few acres, and enjoy that too!

Einstein was right,
"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."

Sad I am getting so old it hurts to flail my arms like that any more. Post little but still read daily.

Why not just buy like a transistor radio with solar cell charging, their very cheep. Where's my Swiss knife pop out of my Iphone, that would be more useful.

No internal antenna.

It is not a crash at all....
Just an 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'

The FDA doesn't actually do testing. The device maker supplies evidence that development followed a process that includes testing, the types and amounts of testing being based on the risks posted by the device.

A company can potentially lie, and claim they did testing that they didn't - but Goddess help you if FDA figures that out: you're in deep, deep trouble. And they can definitely figure it out during a regular inspection, or if people get injured by your product, etc.

Sorry to quibble... but medical devices are normally developed using a process that conforms to ISO 13485, not 9001. Pretty similar, though.

I'm working with some other folks to start a company to develop, manufacture, and market open-source medical devices. We all have extensive experience in developing commercial medical devices - defibrillators, radiation therapy for tumors, etc - and we're convinced that getting more eyeballs to review software and hardware will substantially increase safety and reduce costs.

Yes, we know how to work with the FDA and so forth.

Stay tuned...