RIMM's LEGO Machines Test Blackberry 69
LEGO - my - Crackberry writes "Matthias Wandel is an engineer at Research in Motion (RIMM), the company that makes the Blackberry. What did RIMM turn to for testing the antenna reception of one of its 900MHz devices? LEGO machines. Specifically a device made of LEGO that could rotate a Blackberry about its horizontal & vertical axis in a pre-defined pattern."
Surprised? (Score:5, Insightful)
Want to test different angles precisely? Use some sort of robot.
Only going to build it once, and want it to be easy to build? Use Legos.
Need only rudimentary instructions (e.g. "rotate for 0.2 seconds") to rotate something on said robot? Use Mindstorms.
Nothing beats the satisfaction of soldering one's own circuit board and programming in C, but for something quick, easy to use, and powerful, Legos are the best solution.
Time to start troll-modding use of "Legos"? (Score:3, Insightful)
Is it time to start modding people who still use "legos" when they know what the result will be as trolls?