Caption Contest: board badminton

1/14/2013 5:59 PM EST

"This Arduino board has a much better bounce than the Raspberry Pi!"

1/14/2013 6:01 PM EST

New uses for old ISA PC cards: No. 235....

1/14/2013 6:06 PM EST

"Wow! The on-board accelerometer says you've set the record for delivery speed!

1/14/2013 6:08 PM EST

Now all we have to do is get the electronics miniaturised into a shuttlecock head and then we can go see the folks at Wii....

1/14/2013 6:20 PM EST

Everyone wanted to get their licks in on the new board design, but nobody wanted to be the last to touch it.

1/15/2013 12:38 AM EST

The interns were hopelessly misguided, after being instructed to go play pong with the Atari before writing their game emulator.

1/15/2013 5:04 AM EST

During their tea-break, the boffins while a way some time with the "in-to-net"

1/15/2013 11:38 AM EST

I do say, why toss a design over to software when you can thump it over with some Pizzazz?

1/15/2013 3:17 PM EST

Engineering and Quality battle it out to determine whose side the latest defective product lands on.

1/15/2013 4:19 PM EST

BOARDMINTON: Smashing boards has never been such fun!

1/15/2013 8:24 PM EST

Engineering is my racket. What's yours?

1/15/2013 8:24 PM EST

It improves morale when team members meet informally to bat around a new design.

1/16/2013 11:36 AM EST

It's a hardware problem!... No, it's a software problem!... Hardware!... Software!

1/16/2013 2:44 PM EST

Face it Mr. Book, you have no clue what tossing the idea around means, do you?

Or

Take that Ms. Google, I can do better search than just tossing something over!

1/16/2013 6:20 PM EST

This new stress test method is really cool!

1/16/2013 6:25 PM EST

Teardown is like tennis: smash and reverse.

1/17/2013 10:46 PM EST

Pixar's new movie....Voll-E

1/18/2013 3:51 PM EST

Looks like we still need to put more effort into debouncing this circuit.

1/18/2013 4:13 PM EST

The politics became so bad at the company that management installed a tennis court in engineering so 'hot-potato' projects could be whacked back and forth.

1/18/2013 11:12 PM EST

As the young engineers were instructed to clean up the back of the lab, they soon found that the old ISA board flies really well and the ferrite core memory panel makes a good net. They just didn't know what those things were...

1/19/2013 12:35 PM EST

The interns were let loose and the system under worst case conditions test was in full swing.

1/19/2013 1:47 PM EST

The engineers were intent on taking agile development to a new level.

1/19/2013 3:22 PM EST

The new Highly Accelerated Life Test procedure has put the fun back in testing.

1/19/2013 3:24 PM EST

The airodynamics of this new design really sucks!

1/19/2013 6:01 PM EST

Really bad 'minton

1/19/2013 6:05 PM EST

There's nothing as good, for an EE, as a game of Boardminton during lunch

1/21/2013 6:08 AM EST

Management's practice of empowering the interns took a wrong turn in the QA department and got a bit out of hand.

1/21/2013 6:10 AM EST

Hey, the sales team is at an off-site team building exercise so why shouldn't we?

1/21/2013 10:53 AM EST

The selling features of the product versus its actual capabilities....the on-going, back and forth squabble between Marketing and Engineering!!

1/21/2013 11:01 AM EST

Oh nonononononono! This is a production problem, not an engineering problem. You didn't implement my design correctly.

1/21/2013 11:40 AM EST

So this is how marketing decides which projects to fund.

1/21/2013 12:07 PM EST

And the concept of bit banging was born.

1/21/2013 12:12 PM EST

Unintended Acceleration: Driver vs. Toyota Engineer

1/21/2013 12:19 PM EST

"To get a date with Shelly you have to first beat her at Whack-A-Card"

1/21/2013 8:51 PM EST

Cal thinks it'll take a little top spin to make his new line card dip under budget.

1/21/2013 10:04 PM EST

Carl and Melanie were thrilled to perform the ground bounce measurements on the new board design.

1/22/2013 4:20 AM EST

When the boss told us to get together and throw around a few ideas on the new board, I never thought it would be so much fun!

1/22/2013 4:23 AM EST

We're checking out the new board's net-working capabilities!

1/24/2013 3:14 PM EST

Now, that's how you pass a packet over a mesh net-work!

1/24/2013 5:03 PM EST

"SMD is the way to go. Those old TO-92 transistors used to snag in the racquet strings..."

1/25/2013 2:46 AM EST

"The new ISO-1337 quality certification requires this circuit to withstand a set of 16 buggy whips"

1/25/2013 6:40 PM EST

The traction on these anti-static floor mats is awesome!

1/25/2013 11:04 PM EST

Lets stress test this PCB made in china. Oh no it breaks easily. cheap quality.

1/26/2013 12:28 PM EST

Until recently, Jackie thought of Herb as a
Board-ing person.

1/26/2013 11:04 PM EST

"There's no budget for vibration test equipment, so the boss figured this would do instead!"

1/28/2013 11:05 AM EST

Hey, this "percussive troubleshooting" is rather fun.

1/28/2013 3:22 PM EST

They're testing a new method for wireless transmission.

1/30/2013 11:18 AM EST

Who knew that Stephi Graf moonlights as a test engineer?

1/31/2013 3:38 PM EST

Gain. Set. Latch.

2/4/2013 4:23 AM EST

Board going back and forth between hardware and software: who will mark the bug last ?

2/5/2013 4:40 PM EST

A new take on tossing the design over the wall to production! It gets volleyed back & forth over the net.