We showed you in an earlier post how to build your own customized CAD workstation from the ground up at an affordable cost, but even the best tool is only... read more →
The sun rises; the small mountain of indistinct cardboard packages is illuminated by the morning sun as a glorious monument to technology and engineering. The deliveries have arrived in a... read more →
It's a wondrous time to be alive: cars are starting to drive themselves, robots are starting to walk around and conceivably escape, and 3D printing is starting to make previously... read more →
Chances are you've been staring at the same venerable CAD workstation display for quite some time, perhaps too long. This old relationship has probably carried on for years, surviving an... read more →
I am handed a random young person's engineering resume quite often. Sometimes, it’s relayed by a close friend or trusted colleague. More frequently, however, their brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate... read more →
Graphics performance is no doubt key to CAD productivity. Common recommendations involve running up the bill with professional level GPUs in certified hardware configurations. But is such a setup a wise... read more →
Shall we play a game? Aside from global thermonuclear war, that is. Regardless of your particular opinion on cloud delivery, subscription models, and military supercomputers named after Burger King sandwiches,... read more →
A new year is a time for renewal, opportunity, and new beginnings. For engineers, however, it's a chance to argue about part numbers some more. I love the smell of... read more →
In all the fireworks debating whether software engineering is somehow a subversive underling of "real" engineering, we've only touched on the underlying core issue: engineering ethics. In the Twitterverse, many... read more →