Walker Engineering

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Author: John

  • The World’s Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine

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    It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption…

  • A Look Inside Data Centers

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    I like the trending in infographics for presenting information.  This one is a great summary of Data Centers.  WEngineering has completed a number of projects which work with smaller data centers than Google and Facebook.

  • Walker Engineering Helps Wunderground Hone its Forecasts

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    Walker Engineering maintains KORPORTL71 on Wunderground in an attempt to record local data.  It has been interesting to us to use it to compare data sets from the local area along with the official PDX information.  It has also been extremely useful in supporting local bike commuters via the Wundermap which is one of the…

  • Differential gears: The Movie

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    A ten-minute-long 1930′s extravaganza presentation about differential gears, found courtesy of Improbable Research: BONUS: Video of a much older AND younger set of differential gears: the antikythera mechanism; and of a logo version of same.

  • Barcelona Soccer as a Metaphor for Project Management

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    Clean inbox, simplified life, 10% solution, all of these are simply one-touch moves taught best is soccer, the team game.  If you are looking to make your team successful, do you need the “guru” or are you trying for a shortcut that education can provide.  Take a look as Barcelona provide a model that all…