Category: Engineering
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Help Ladyada’s Workshop Become a Real LEGO Set
Why? Because every young woman in school should have this name, these tools, and this in mind. How else will we get it there? As the NYTimes article suggests, it is time to give women the access code. Welcome LEGO fans! We looked around and couldn’t find a LEGO set that was geared towards inspiring…
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Auction Off Your Sunny, Unused Roof Space
Is your roof just sitting there? We at Walker Engineering are looking at Gridbid to solve some of that. Launching nationwide June 15, is a website where homeowners can put their roofs up for auction for use by one of the U.S.’s 4,000 solar power installer companies. Interested companies will bid on a rooftop,…
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Wind farms ‘have major economic benefit’
From The Independent. Read the article directly and check out the links provided to related articles. I have copied some of the article here just for reference. Onshore wind farms, recently under attack from leading conservationists for damaging the countryside, can bring significant economic benefits locally and nationally, as well as contributing to the…
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Purdue Sets World Record with Largest Rube Goldberg Machine
Congratulations to the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team. This weekend, the team broke its own world record for the Largest Functional Rube Goldberg Machine. The invention took only 300 steps to blow up and pop a balloon.