The Shoe makers children have no shoes.

The Software guy’s rocket has no software. I’ve made my living doing embedded control software for about 25 years. I am the software architect for my company Netburner. NetBurner does not do much end use software, we put together devlopment environments that others use to build products. Somewhere in the world there are around a  million embedded devices running my/our NetBurner RTOS and TCP code. Things like:

• Slot machines


• Traffic Lights


• Cow Milking Machines


• Machine tools


• Test Instruments


• Smart Home Theater controllers.


• Self Checkout systems.


• 3D Laser Log scanners.


• Atomic Time Standards.


• UAV’s


• UWV’s


• Buses


• Custom Cars


• Custom Boats


• I’m not 100% sure but from the problem description a customers is running a “peep show controller.”


• etc… etc…

The Hardware is 100% complete on the rocket. I’ve unit tested all the comm links and subsystems. I was hoping to be ready for a final fullup static test with ALL of the flight ready software in place this weekend. Alas I have a bug, the worst possible kind a “hangs up and goes silent bug”. I’ve worked on it all day, and its kicked my butt. On Sunday I’ll modify the watchdog hardware to trigger a non maskable interrupt rather than a reset. Then the NMI routine can give me a little info about where its hung up when the watchdog goes off. Arghhhh!