{"id":515,"date":"2008-02-05T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/02\/05\/error-handling-and-washing-machines\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:10:37","slug":"error-handling-and-washing-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/02\/05\/error-handling-and-washing-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Error-Handling and Washing Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/01\/21\/candidates-for-the-ui-disaster-museum\/\">this washing maching user-interface<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Washing Machine UI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/washingmachine-ui-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image342\" alt=\"Washing Machine UI\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/washingmachine-ui-002.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out the usability wasn&#8217;t the only problem. The handling of the error-case leaves something to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>It is a front-loading machine. When you push the button labelled with a key in a circle is, the door opens. Unless it is in the middle of a wash-cycle, because that would cause water to leak onto your laundry-floor.<\/p>\n<p>The door-release mechanism is implemented as a button that pulls a cable that closes a switch that triggers a solenoid that releases a latch that allows a spring to open the door.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the washing machine developed a short circuit&#8230; which means it didn&#8217;t have any power&#8230; which means the solenoid wouldn&#8217;t operate&#8230; which means my clothes were trapped inside the machine for two days.<\/p>\n<p>I have just completed a surprise raid on the washing machine innards. The hostages have been released, unharmed but rather shaken. Unfortunately, the kidnapper was mortally wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/01\/21\/candidates-for-the-ui-disaster-museum\/\">this washing maching user-interface<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Washing Machine UI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/washingmachine-ui-002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image342\" alt=\"Washing Machine UI\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/washingmachine-ui-002.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out the usability wasn&#8217;t the only problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[238,237],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","tag-error-handling","tag-whitegoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}