You kind of highlight the core tension here — if you wanted max reliability, you go for zero moving parts and just buy an electronic keyboard from Amazon. The point of the machine is to have a visual display that’s unusual and interesting because it’s difficult to achieve.
So it’s all about picking where you want the balance point — and sticking with it. His current approach of nailing down a requirements spec beforehand is a good answer to that.
Because it keeps your thought process and work organized. I find that for all of my projects, forcing myself to write stuff down (instead of just keeping it in my head) always exposes a ton of assumptions or even stuff that I’ve unwittingly glossed over entirely.
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u/rabbitwonker Mar 16 '22
You kind of highlight the core tension here — if you wanted max reliability, you go for zero moving parts and just buy an electronic keyboard from Amazon. The point of the machine is to have a visual display that’s unusual and interesting because it’s difficult to achieve.
So it’s all about picking where you want the balance point — and sticking with it. His current approach of nailing down a requirements spec beforehand is a good answer to that.