Tools of the Trade – Calipers and Micrometer
In the olden days of apprenticeships, your status in the world was built on your set of tools. While you were an apprentice, you started saving your money and acquiring your collection of tools, and...
View ArticleWeekend Journal — Engineering (Business) Travel
I’ve written before about business travel, but this time I’m traveling as a design engineer; last time it was general thoughts on travel after a short stint at a conference as a technical writer. So I...
View ArticleAwesome Tools For Every Mechanical Engineer
I’m a mechanical engineer. I love mechanical things. My parents gave me lots of Legos to play with as a child and I suppose I never entirely grew out of them. If I had to say what the favorite part of...
View ArticleWhy It’s Still Necessary to Build Real Hardware
CAD modeling, virtual prototyping, and 3-d printing all have their place; but at the end of the day, You Still Need to Build Real Hardware. In this post, I’ll share a few examples of my own hard won...
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