Category: Walker Engineering
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How Big Have Our Cars Gotten at Walker Engineering?
In the office we were discussing our current car that is too large and just not us. It runs fine, it is everything one is supposed to want, and yet, it is a car for old people, one of the many that have simply grown in size until they just aren’t what we believe represents…
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The credit belongs to the …
Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Sorbonne in 1910 It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and…
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Trimble: A new home for SketchUp
Due to the nature of our projects I am interested in my favorite 3D modeling tool, SketchUp moving to Trimble. Trimble to Enhance its Office-to-Field Platform with the Acquisition of Google’s SketchUp 3D Modeling Platform On April 26, 2012, Trimble announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SketchUp® from Google. SketchUp is…
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Studying Data to Find When Bad Guys Sleep in Portland
We were researching infographics and the underlying data analysis for customer work and found this gem by trulia insights Do Bad Guys Ever Sleep? From their article Crime happens all day long, but when it peaks and wanes really depends on where you live. After we brought crime maps into the world, we decided take a deeper…
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Summertime: Impromptu Dry Erase Board
It is finally summer at Walker Engineering and one thing I like to do is finally complete projects that require thinking and projects that require MAKE-ing. One that I think I am off to snap into place tomorrow for fun is this Impromptu Dry Erase board as a desktop organizer. I am going to use parts…