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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Visit at the factory
We arrived to the factory around 9am and finally got a chance to hold the prototype in our hands. I can't really tell you how it feels to have something in your hand that you worked on for 18 months. Maybe having your first child. :)We met the owner of the company and the engineers as well. It was good to finally meet everyone, they all worked really hard on this project.
We installed the software quickly and put the PCB in the scale which fit perfectly. We were excited to see the first measurement, but unfortunately there were no results.... and we also had no idea what the problem was.
It took us 7 hours to fix the issue but we finally did. It would have been way too easy to arrive to China and have everything work perfectly right away.
The signals from the sensors were noisier than we were used to due to the extremely high temperature. Since we tested and calibated our scales in room temperature, the extreme heat (over 100 fahrenheit) at the factory caused us some difficulties. We want very accurate results and since the sensors were not accurate enough, the scale didnt display any measurement result. We fixed the problem and now everything functions perfectly.
At the end of the day we were exhausted but proud at the same time... issues will always come up, but this time we fixed them relatively fast and it made us happy. Looking forward to tomorrow!
We installed the software quickly and put the PCB in the scale which fit perfectly. We were excited to see the first measurement, but unfortunately there were no results.... and we also had no idea what the problem was.
It took us 7 hours to fix the issue but we finally did. It would have been way too easy to arrive to China and have everything work perfectly right away.
The signals from the sensors were noisier than we were used to due to the extremely high temperature. Since we tested and calibated our scales in room temperature, the extreme heat (over 100 fahrenheit) at the factory caused us some difficulties. We want very accurate results and since the sensors were not accurate enough, the scale didnt display any measurement result. We fixed the problem and now everything functions perfectly.
At the end of the day we were exhausted but proud at the same time... issues will always come up, but this time we fixed them relatively fast and it made us happy. Looking forward to tomorrow!
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