I graduated in 1990 in Electrical Engineering and since then I have been in university, doing research in the field of DSP. To me programming is more a tool than a job.
I am not a expert in elevators, but definitively it is not an hamster.... I believe it is a chinchilla :-)
Seriously, I think that nowadays elevators and other devices are controlled with a microcontroller that (I expect) is usually programmed in C or similar... I never looked into the cost detail, but I think that inexpensiveness and the flexibility of a software solution are much superior to a pure hardware solution.
About the most unusual programming jobs... Honestly, I do not know. I guess you can find many peculiar jobs in the field of "embedded" stuff, possibly in many household appliance: ovens, microwaves, kitchen robots, ...
Oh, wait! I know! If you want something really unusual in a market that many believe will mushroom in the near future, give a look to the Sex Tech field. Sex Tech is the field of technology applied to sexual life, in the widest sense: it includes sex toys, but also medical devices, pregnancy facilitator/avoidance, sex robots (that can do a decent conversation, too...), 3D movies with VR... There is also a field called "Teledildonics" (yes, the name makes your eyebrow to raise... nevertheless, this is the name, I did not invented it)
BTW, I hope neither you nor any other reader get offended... I am serious, no innuendos. Yes, it is a bit embarrassing because it touches something deep inside, but it is also part of our life (and the main responsible for the existence of 7.5 billions of individuals...) and it is a very wide (the whole world population) and unexplored market.
Of course, some of those applications could be borderline with someone ethics, nevertheless on the medical side there is ample room for maneuver.
You could think that it could be embarrassing to tell your friends what you do for a living, but it is OK... I guess you'll be using C and not PHP (with ref. to an old joke)
If you think this field can interest you, I know that there will be in September (modulo virus) an event in Berlin I have never been there, so I cannot say if it is good or not, but I plan to go.
How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
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I am not a expert in elevators, but definitively it is not an hamster.... I believe it is a chinchilla :-)
Seriously, I think that nowadays elevators and other devices are controlled with a microcontroller that (I expect) is usually programmed in C or similar... I never looked into the cost detail, but I think that inexpensiveness and the flexibility of a software solution are much superior to a pure hardware solution.
About the most unusual programming jobs... Honestly, I do not know. I guess you can find many peculiar jobs in the field of "embedded" stuff, possibly in many household appliance: ovens, microwaves, kitchen robots, ...
Oh, wait! I know! If you want something really unusual in a market that many believe will mushroom in the near future, give a look to the Sex Tech field. Sex Tech is the field of technology applied to sexual life, in the widest sense: it includes sex toys, but also medical devices, pregnancy facilitator/avoidance, sex robots (that can do a decent conversation, too...), 3D movies with VR... There is also a field called "Teledildonics" (yes, the name makes your eyebrow to raise... nevertheless, this is the name, I did not invented it)
Of course, some of those applications could be borderline with someone ethics, nevertheless on the medical side there is ample room for maneuver.
You could think that it could be embarrassing to tell your friends what you do for a living, but it is OK... I guess you'll be using C and not PHP (with ref. to an old joke)
If you think this field can interest you, I know that there will be in September (modulo virus) an event in Berlin I have never been there, so I cannot say if it is good or not, but I plan to go.
Embedded gets a hole new meaning.