| rdfs:comment | - When a Devisor builds something, it is a Devise, irreproducible, scorned by Science. When a Gadgeteer builds something, it's reproducible and patentable. Then there are those who are both, and know not what they have created. For those, there is the Devise Test. The concept is simple: gather together all the notes the inventor produced while working on the project, hand them to a non-devisor, and see if they can build it. It's rarely that simple, though; notes... are sometimes sketchy, concepts not spelled out, steps glossed over. Not to mention hard to read.
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| abstract | - When a Devisor builds something, it is a Devise, irreproducible, scorned by Science. When a Gadgeteer builds something, it's reproducible and patentable. Then there are those who are both, and know not what they have created. For those, there is the Devise Test. The concept is simple: gather together all the notes the inventor produced while working on the project, hand them to a non-devisor, and see if they can build it. It's rarely that simple, though; notes... are sometimes sketchy, concepts not spelled out, steps glossed over. Not to mention hard to read. Being asked to do a Devise Test for someone is quite the compliment. It means they think you're really smart, methodical, tenacious, and capable of your own leaps of brilliance to cross the gaps of the Devisor's notes. Rez was asked to do the Devise Test for Spark's Fullerene Suit.
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