{"id":147,"date":"2011-07-06T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/2011\/07\/06\/explaining-model-based-design-to-your-mom\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:26:57","slug":"explaining-model-based-design-to-your-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2011\/07\/06\/explaining-model-based-design-to-your-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Model-Based Design to your Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today, we had a short conversation at the start of a meeting. It went something like this:<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> Yesterday I opened the main page of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\">MathWorks website<\/a> and saw a link to a new video about Model-Based Design.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seth:<\/strong> We should highlight that video with a blog post!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> I thought you would say that.  Here it is:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/solutions\/model-based-design.html?s_cid=blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2011Q3\/MBDvideo.png\" alt=\"Model-Based Design with MATLAB and Simulink video\"><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> Did you hear that? 200,000,000 lines of code in my car!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seth:<\/strong> So when I hit the breaks, I'm running C code! Cool.  I feel like I will be able to show this video to my mom, my dad and my non-engineers friends to give them an idea of what I do!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> During the last few years I have actually worked on technical support requests related to many of the projects mentioned in this video!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Jason <\/strong><em>(The guy with the blue shirt and cool glasses in the video)<\/em>: In case you are not familiar with Model-Based Design, I recommend looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/solutions\/model-based-design.html\">this section<\/a> of our website to get more info and download a tech kit to help you getting started.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Now it's your turn<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> How do you like the video?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seth:<\/strong> How does your mom like it?  Leave us a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=147&#comment\">comment here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we had a short conversation at the start of a meeting. It went something like this:\r\n\r\nGuy: Yesterday I opened the main page of the MathWorks website and saw a link to a new video about... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2011\/07\/06\/explaining-model-based-design-to-your-mom\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,16],"tags":[445,441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}