Engineering Posts

12 Feb

Enginursday: Radio Shack: A Remembrance

Radio Shack is finally declaring bankruptcy, but for many of us, it died a long, long time ago

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5 Feb

Enginursday: Turtleponics

In this week's Enginursday, Joel shows off his aquatic turtle habitat, complete with an above-tank basking area, automated lighting, and an aquaponic feeding system.

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29 Jan

Enginursday: InfoSec for Hardware Geeks

The word "hacker" is often abused in the DIY community. In this post we talk about traditional grey-hat hacking in relation to hardware and DIY electronics.

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22 Jan

Enginursday: CES, You should go next year.

My experience at CES 2015 and my thoughts on attending.

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15 Jan

Enginursday: Developers and Getting Started with Programming

Gathering ideas from developers and hackers, and sharing a few of our own!

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8 Jan

Enginursday: Magnus Chord Organ Teardown

Examining the inner workings of an electric chord organ.

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18 Dec

Soft Fabrication for the Beginner

Sewing- not just for clothes anymore! (Or ever, really.)

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11 Dec

Enginursday: Favorite Tools

Examining one of the categories that occupies significant space on my workbench: wire strippers.

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4 Dec

Enginursday: Leaving the protection of the Van Allen belt

As the new Orion capsule takes flight, NASA is working to better understand what we did almost 40 years ago with the moon landings. Why have we not ventured beyond the Van Allen belt?

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27 Nov

Enginursday: Adventures in Building My Own Workbench Part 2 (Or How I Learned To Love the Triangle)

I share my designs for my new electronics workbench and go over some of the design decisions for it. I also cover what makes triangles more stable than squares.

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