Category: Basics

I was getting frustrated! This was the third time I was attempting to super glue my 3D printed prototype together and the glue just wasn't holding. In my younger years, I would have already smashed...

I'm a hands on engineer and I was skeptical of sitting behind a desk all day looking at a computer. However, I also knew that I wanted to design and build things for a living. Most mechanical...

Steel and Aluminum are the two most popular materials when it comes to making structures. Yet, steel seems to win more. One of the ways that it beats Aluminum is in fatigue because aluminum does not...

Multiplying large numbers is difficult. Any 4th grade math student will tell you that! When you learned how to multiply large numbers, it probably looked a little like this. Personally I never...

Multiplying large number is difficult. Any 4th grade math student will tell you that! When you learned how to multiply large numbers, it probably looked a little like this. This is complicated...

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