A Year in a Rainforest - Engineering for Survival

Explore engineering techniques for creating resilient programs in remote and inaccessible environments through this ACCU 2022 conference talk by Matthew Dodkins. Delve into practical coding strategies for ensuring long-term program runtime, including bootloaders, watchdogs, and exception handling. Learn from real-world experiences in the Amazon rainforest, where Dodkins deployed dolphin and bat detectors for conservation purposes. Gain insights into planning, power management, and problem-solving for extreme conditions. Participate in interactive live coding sessions and discover best practices for implementing changes, error reporting, and in-field updates. Enhance your skills in crafting robust systems that can withstand challenging deployments and continue running indefinitely.

Intro
Deployment Challenges
Dolphin Bat Detectors
The Explorer
Planning
Diary
Logs
Sustenance
Packing food
Power
Low Power
Handling Problems
Show Of Hands
Live Code
Live Code 2
assert
undefined behavior
standard strings
interview question
option 3 problems
option 4 problems
watchdogs
software watchdogs
implementing changes
error reporting
subsystem
report files
infield updates