Comment by jerf

Comment by jerf 4 days ago

The major problem with sticking an Android tablet on to exercise equipment is the difference in life spans. Android tablets are generally going to last you 4-5 years. Weight equipment should be able to last decades. There is some simple & cheap hardware that can last decades, but it is legitimately harder to program.

Even worse was an article some months back about Android tablets hooked to heating & cooling systems expected to last 20 years. There's no way those things are making it at scale.

g947o 4 days ago

> Weight equipment should be able to last decades.

"should" or "actually can"? Do you have references to show that's the actual lifespan of the equipment, mechanically?

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jerf 4 days ago

Weight training equipment lasts decades all the time. It's just big piles of metal, it's not hard to get right.
What actually prompted the engineering-CYA "should" is if the Android tablet is controlling some sort of robotic system for selecting weight sizes, that that system might have an expected life span on par with a tablet, being a physical thing moving around some pins or something in a potentially hostile user environment. That'll break long before anything else would.

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- g947o 4 days ago
  
  So you don't have a reference.
  I'm just going to ignore this.
  
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  jerf 3 days ago
  
  If you are the sort of person who needs a reference for "weight equipment lasts a long time", feel free. Whatever guilt and shame you think I should be feeling over such a claim, believe me, I don't. I'm more in the "feeling pity for you" department here; I've been around enough to know what kind of person types messages like this.
  
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