The article mentions some good arguments in favor of using off the shelf parts (both cheaper and more familiar to the end user). Part of me feels like this should be embraced more widely, as many industries feel bloated and unnecessarily expensive to get into.
And then we see people take some used pipes and make them to be safety critical parts of a deep sea submarine. I’m all for simplifying and reducing cost when it’s not necessary, but this seems a bit cheap.
Apparently the deep sea challenger had a releasable ballast weight that was designed to be automatically detached via corrosion in case of the release system failing. That is something that feels like both an intuitive and inexpensive system design.
The article mentions some good arguments in favor of using off the shelf parts (both cheaper and more familiar to the end user). Part of me feels like this should be embraced more widely, as many industries feel bloated and unnecessarily expensive to get into.
And then we see people take some used pipes and make them to be safety critical parts of a deep sea submarine. I’m all for simplifying and reducing cost when it’s not necessary, but this seems a bit cheap.
Apparently the deep sea challenger had a releasable ballast weight that was designed to be automatically detached via corrosion in case of the release system failing. That is something that feels like both an intuitive and inexpensive system design.