Category: Basics

Early in my engineering career, I was overwhelmed by the complexity of the things I was trying to design and calculate. Being a novice, I clammed up and did nothing. On one particular project, an...

The difference between digital and analog is that digital tells you a discrete value. Analog makes you interpret the value.There is no requirement for digital devices to have any electronics in them...

If you are anything like me, you have a deep desire to design and build things. If I had a nickel for every time my mother said, "Corey, what are you doing?" I would be set for life. I love...

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...