Tuesday, March 08, 2005

redundant design



The use of one loud alarm clock and one annoying alarm clock is an example of an engineering technique called redundant design. Two alarm clocks are placed in different locations; one serves as the primary system, and the other one serves as the back-up system. With two alarm clocks operating separately, the risk of skipping-due-to-involuntary-oversleep has been greatly reduced. Additionally, the effect of unforeseeable battery depletion scenario is minimized because of the back-up system. The failure rate of this design, however, increases exponentially with the shortening of sleeping time.

6 comments:

said...

hmm...
you are really good at writing something like this ^^"

I have two systems to wake me up as well. However, chances of curing skipping-due-to-voluntary-laziness seem hopeless.. =___=

法蘭.克 said...

i got two systems too~ my cell phone and my mom~

單細胞的困惑 said...

ya technical communication is surprisingly fun sometimes
but i cant believe i atually spent time and wrote this
glad u guys find it amusing ^^

"skipping-due-to-voluntary-laziness" - thats indeed inevitable..

its good to hav a mom who wakes up on time.. wish i hav one too

passed with 53% phew~
hahah thx thats wut i got out of that class, and it doesnt suck so much now.. since i passed it
it feels great and i can scare 1st yr engineers heheh

touchfish said...

Cool design..

I have two identical loudness alarm clock as well...

however, i doubt that even 10 alarm clock will work..

since i have the ability of shutting it off and go back to sleep endless times~

McBenz said...

As a fellow engineer, I think that you are misleading the public.

We are not all geeks, haha.

單細胞的困惑 said...

hahah seems like im not the only one who does this

ben.. self-deception is not gonna work
look into ur heart, u know u r a geek deep down
y else would u be in engineering??
hehehh
personally, i don think im even qualified to be one
u kinda need hav sick grades at first place =.=

btw thx for visiting ppl