YouTube description: Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great. Check out SimpliSafe... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 989 views • 12:52

ASM = Anti-Ship Missile. An interesting look into missile design and behaviors across the globe. From YT: Russia has got them... so does Japan, India, Taiwan, and others. So why doesn't the US?

This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 505 views • 4:57

YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months 2 weeks ago • 734 views • 8:43

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 3 weeks ago • 413 views • 10:05

YouTube description: This is the story of one of the best, and also one of the worst, text messages I've ever received. It's about harm, about consequences, and about the responsibilities that designers,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 602 views • 6:16

Inspired by military vehicles, Audi designed a revolutionary all wheel drive system that would take their coupes and sedans where they had never gone before: off road. Join James as he explores the history... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 months 2 weeks ago • 77 views • 14:32

YouTube description: Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 3 weeks ago • 491 views • 9:34

YouTube description: More Detailed Interviews here: Dr. Angela Olinto https://youtu.be/8S9iKtI_DGQ Felipe Ruiz https://youtu.be/JtLi6tZzsgA Dr. Tony Case https://youtu.be/m3GKfvPc2ns... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 months 3 weeks ago • 564 views • 13:50

YouTube description: How do you cool a building without air conditioning? Using an approach called biomimicry, see how architect Mick Pearce harnessed the ingenuity of termites to design a natural cooling... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 3 weeks ago • 575 views • 3:42

US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 4:59

designed by Chrysler.

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 1 month 4 weeks ago • 29 views • 4:40

YouTube description: Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 2 months ago • 402 views • 6:41

I was going to tell a science fiction story about faceswapping, and mass blackmail. Then the news broke about unethical faceswapping videos, and software designed and marketed for creating them: and I... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 1,241 views • 6:41

YT - Shawn Woods Published on Jan 14, 2018 A Crazy 1882 Rodent Trap Design. You can see the full Molecat Rat Video on my Website: https://new.mousetrapmonday.com/video... New Mouse/Rat Trap Videos... continue reading

posted by Buck 1 year 4 months ago • 55 views • 4:57