[sdiy] Design Process

[Magnus Danielson]

Aaron Lanterman wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Rainer Buchty wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
>>
>>> What do you do when something just refuses to work?
>> Explain it so someone.
> 
> I use the reverse of this when helping students with programs and circuits. I have them explain it to me, asking them random questions as they're explaining it, and they usually figure out what's wrong  on their own while they're explaining it, while I'm pretending to be all insightful and stuff. ;)
> 
> The tradition is that final projects work fine until the professor comes in to see the demo. On two separate occasions I've had the opposite effect - some aspect of the project won't be working, and they'll show it to be to show it's not working and their thoughts on why it's not working... and it's spontaneously worked. :)

I've aided "solving" things by sitting next to someone who tries to 
explain it while I have myself been at the brink of falling to sleep and 
not being able to really grasp it completely... but due to the respect 
they have for me and that my haphazard questions forced them to explain 
more I acted more like a catalyst than active part of the resulting 
reaction.

Cheers,
Magnus