Category: Engineering
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Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive World
From the NYTime, By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Published: December 5, 2011 Neal Stephenson doesn’t like talking about how he predicted the future. Before the invention of the Web, Neal Stephenson saw the Metaverse, a virtual place for people to meet. Mr. Stephenson is the author of a baker’s dozen novels whose dazzling range includes rocket-propelled thrillers…
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Engineering: It’s Like Math But Louder
I just found this on Adafruit, well, actually from Limor Fried on Google+. Formulas and variables and integrals and derivatives: to the casual observer it looks like you’re doing MATH. But you’re NOT. Because when you solve for x, things EXPLODE. You’re doing ENGINEERING. Shirt created, designed and supplied by David Malki ! http://wondermark.com/ …
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Reading Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
I was researching Standards to complete a project just the other day and I stopped to ask myself why I always explain to people why standards are NOT the bible of design. Standards for kitchen cabinets were set to lower costs and support a “non-use” kitchen as baking was going out of style and the…
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The World’s Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine
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…
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Differential gears: The Movie
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.