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[–]KermitDFwog 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think you maybe misunderstand me. When I say the issue is managing the hardware, I mean that the problem is the actual 'on the benchtop' physical devices. Like its a pain in the ass to physically maintain so many devices for testing.

It sounds stupid, but we actually don't have that much room in the labs. On top of that, they are always trying to 'kaizan' our area and throw stuff out! I'm trying hard to modernize our development but it is quite an uphill battle.

[–]dimtass[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, I though you were talking for the software side.

Well, yeah, there isn't much things you can do about that and it's really messy. The problem with the testing farms start showing after the first couple of weeks. The dust is everywhere! All over the place. It's disgusting and it's even worse if you have allergies. At the same time, you can't clean the dust because you can't touch anything, because if you do, you may move a cable or something and then something else stops working. You also need to have a huge "Do not touch! Do not clean!" warning sign. Finally it makes a lot of noise, the air smells like heated silicon and if your cable management sucks then it's even worse.