I want to pique my kids' interest in rockets, science, tech and manufacturing so we went to see a launch. Before we left I sent this message to 914 engineers: "If there are any cool insights about what it takes to build a rocket that would blow a
I posted this on LinkedIn earlier (after running the CFD) but thought it deserved some more analysis. Original Post: "I assume I'm not the only one who has wondered how much effect those little reindeer antlers have on fuel economy...Anyway, turns out it's not
The processing power required to support the AI revolution is a staggering figure, but computing power is a really hard thing to visualize. The scale of the numbers are so huge that it numbs the brain. So how can we visualize the massive amount of computing power required to support
Posted this on reddit: "Seems like every house built in the 70s/80s has a bunch of these hooks in the ceiling and at least half of them are busted off in exactly the same place.I wondered if people were just hanging too much on them or if
Yes. like...a lot faster. Like...if you extrapolate from the current trendline we should be seeing Formula cars that break the sound barrier on the backstretch at Monza somewhere around the year 3284. I read this writeup on the evolution of the Formula 1 car and it got me
Created the CAD, sent it to 3DHR.eu and they cranked out 50 of them in an afternoon.
Metals are my favorite materials to work with because they're so well understood. They’ve been around for a very long time and they have well documented and predictable properties. If you’re designing a simple metal part and you want to verify how it will perform under
Recently I was approached by a client (that I am definitely not making up) to develop an orthopedic implant device. He is an amateur boxer in a totally legitimate organization that is not run by the mafia and he thinks he's found a loophole in the rules that
The job was laid out plain and simple: toss all five trackers into the abyss, five miles out where the ocean swallows secrets whole. But fate had other designs.
Last week I built the prototypes of the GPS tracker messages in bottles and tested them out. I learned a few key things...
So...I'm dropping a bunch of GPS trackers off in the Gulf of Mexico.
Well…I picked the wrong tree. There are officially no maples in all of Florida.
Maples are hardwoods that grow slow. Pines are softwoods that grow fast. Is there any point in a pine's life where it's rapid increase in diameter makes it more rigid than a maple?
They're tiny, they're delicate, they're sensitive to microscopic misalignments...how do we make these things?
Well, it turns out my wife is right...I probably should turn up the temperature on the water heater.
If you're at Chipotle, just ask for extra rice. Here's why it works:
It's where an engineer writes about the big questions in life. Like where 5 identical bottles end up if you drop them 5 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico.