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I present to you, the results of Principles of Engineering.
Principles of Engineering (PoE) is an introductory level mechatronics class at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. The class is structured around using PIC microcontrollers to build simple devices. PoE is structured such that students teach themselves through three structured investigative labs. Then, students design […]

Today at lunch we were discussing how so many other countries’ units of currency are named the “Adjectival-Form-of-Country-Name Dollar”. This is sort of lame, because American Dollars came first, and it seems confusing to have so many different kinds of dollars. For instance, if I offered to trade you twenty dollars for your ten dollars, […]

I read the newspaper and news magazines once in a while, and they all seem to be talking about some sort of “Internet Revolution”. For some reason I can’t figure out, they keep including links to web pages that jumped the shark months ago, and can’t stop raving about News Corp’s purchase of MySpace and […]

There are fundamentally three ways to go places. You can propel yourself, you can manipulate the environment to propel you, or you can be propelled with no effort on your own part at all.
The first one is something we do every day. We walk from place to place, usually to get somewhere in time for […]

The blog poster in Flock would be awesome if the cursor didn’t randomly disappear, but I guess I will have to wait until it is out of beta. Worth noting, Flock actually has built in spell checking on forms, which Firefox won’t until 2.0.
But this entry is not about Flock. Tonight, I will tell you […]