Why do Baseball Bats Break
In 2009, the an MLB committee determined that the increase in the use of maple baseball bats (over the traditional ash bats) was a primary reason for the rise in bats breaking during games. But why?
Read MoreYoyo Despin for Spacecraft
You may have seen the yo-yo trick called "Around the World", but you probably didn’t know that spacecraft that actually do go around the world have their own yo-yo trick.
Read MoreThe 100-Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is
How do engineers combine statistical hydrology and societal risk tolerance (two of my favorite topics) to characterize flooding?
Read MoreTuned Mass Dampers in Skyscrapers
In many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, there’s a secret device protecting the building and the people inside from strong motion due to wind and earthquakes. Did you know you can tune a skyscraper just like a guitar?
Read MoreArduino Garden Controller
Gardening in the modern age means making things more complicated and arduous, with electrons, bits, and bytes. Behold: the garduino.
Read MoreGroundwater Flow Model
I was commissioned to build this model in support of a presentation about geotechnical engineering. The goal is to illustrate the flow paths that groundwater takes under an obstruction (e.g. a sheet pile or cutoff wall).
Read MoreParticle Photon Weather Station
For me, discussing the weather is more than idle small talk. So when I got interested in web-enabled electronics (the Internet of Things), I knew immediately that my first project be related to the first thing I do when I log onto my computer at work each day: check the weather.
Read MoreInternational Space Station Orbit Tracker and Pointer
There’s a growing movement of people who believe that our space agencies are underfunded and that humanity isn’t paying enough attention to our present accomplishments and future plans in space exploration. Well, I know one way to direct attention to something: Point at it.
Read MoreArcade-Style Puzzle Box Mini Game
I have this deep-seated desire to turn every knob and push every button and flip every switch that I see.
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