Continuing his wonderful series of videos on the unappreciated wonders of engineering that surround us here’s Engineer Guy on the truly amazing process required to produce a common incandescent light-bulb...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday March 1st, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Education, Science | 7 Comments
A few weeks ago, we were talking internally about somehow celebrating some of our favorite makers from 2010. Of course, when we do that, our usual cast of amazing makers...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday December 29th, 2010 3:02 PM
That phrase could be Bill Hammack's tagline. This week, it's the piezoelectric crystal oscillator in a $9.99 digital watch from Target, a device so ubiquitous that it has become "ephemeralized,"...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday December 14th, 2010 1:43 PM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Science | 4 Comments
Unlike all the other men in my family (and most of my friends) I am not an electrical engineer by training. I've spent my life around electrical engineering, and although...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday December 7th, 2010 2:09 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science | 1 Comment
Bill Hammack's video confection is especially sweet this week. Bill scored a vintage Delta "black box" on eBay and, in this week's installment, tears it apart on camera to show...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday November 30th, 2010 12:47 PM
Categories: Craft, Education, Science | No Comments
If you've been around long enough to have ever actually blown out your flip-flop, stepped on a pop top, you've already got one great reason to appreciate the 1975 introduction...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday November 16th, 2010 11:49 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Education, Science | No Comments
A "whiffletree" is a mechanical digital-to-analog converter. Brilliant science-and-technology documentarian Bill Hammack, professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Illinois, has produced this fascinating video anatomy of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday November 9th, 2010 1:18 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Robotics, Science | 6 Comments
Bill Hammack is one part Mr. Wizard and one part James Burke. He's a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his alter ego Engineer...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday July 19th, 2010 12:39 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Education, Science | No Comments
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