Engineering App Ideas
Engineering App Ideas
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I'm considering writing an app for engineers, and I'm looking for ideas. I enjoy coding projects in my spare time, and I thought it would be fun to try making an app.
Does anyone have anything that they wish they could do on their phone or tablet? There's a lot of calculators out there, and I can do that, though it's a little boring. I'm looking for something that would be as helpful as possible.
Does anyone have anything that they wish they could do on their phone or tablet? There's a lot of calculators out there, and I can do that, though it's a little boring. I'm looking for something that would be as helpful as possible.
Jim Breunig P.E.
XCEED Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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RE: Engineering App Ideas
Dik
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In the nuclear world, engineers walk down equipment, record their observations on a clip board, enter it in a computer, plot/trend the data. I was thinking about an app to streamline some of this, but it may not be as helpful as I was hoping.
Thanks for the input!
Jim Breunig P.E.
XCEED Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
FEA Consultants
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Not clear that there's a real path there. Laptops haven't gotten a whole lot faster in the last 5 years. I'm still using my HP Envy, and it's still faster than an ASUS I bought last Christmas, even though the price points are about the same. It's like the price of houses; at some point, you run out of people that can either afford them or are interested in them. Does having 10x the computing power of the current phones really make sense for the mass market? If not, then it's not really going to happen.
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Moore's law was officially broken in/around 2016, so your point regarding processor speed/price is valid, though not the topic of discussion I was going for.
Jim Breunig P.E.
XCEED Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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RE: Engineering App Ideas
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DSB123
"Who are going to use the apps"
I don't have an intended target, other than engineers in general. Just soliciting people's thoughts. Judging by the slow response rate, it seems to be as I expected; there is not a strong need for engineering apps.
"Where is the QA Documentation"
Smart Answer - Nonexistent since there is no app. Just looking for ideas.
Real Answer - Level of QA required is based on what the app would be used for. Since I'm looking for ideas with regards to the use of the app, the level of QA required has not been determined.
Jim Breunig, PE
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A good app might be to have a level line with the angle in degrees so that if the tablet edge were placed on a grade or sloped wall the tablet would display the angle.
Dik
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That's actually a pretty good idea.
Is there anything built into a phone or pad that could be used for measuring distances?
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Distance are going to be difficult to do with a phone, since they could only be done by pure triangulation, and that would require a whole bunch of calibration to get any meaningful accuracy. You can buy a laser rangefinder on eBay relatively inexpensively: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sac...
Even home appraisers are using them now.
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Dik
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How about home app-raisers?
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Jim Breunig, PE
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