This part delights me - check the diagram just under "now whenever we push on the bucket the spring will push it back in place"
When you release the slider it springs back into place.
Internal Combustion Engine
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#342One of those web pages which deserves an award. Some place in some kind of Internet Hall of Fame, an historical archive which shows the only best highlights of what websites were actually capable of presenting. Milestones of web development. This page summarizes pretty good what web technology is capable of, when in the hands of a real professional. --- Ok, I just realized this is from Bartosz Ciechanowski, and this…
"This page summarizes pretty good what web technology is capable of, when in the hands of a real professional."
I was looking at this when I went to bed, and though the subject matter isn't completely new to me I was enthralled by the execution and stayed up and read all of it...
Absolutely LOVE the way this has been put together, it really speaks to me of beauty in simplicity, at least from the visual perspective!
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#343If you want to take the experience further, I would recommend the following Redline engine rebuild time lapses that Hagerty has. They are mesmerizing and incredible. Their engine re-builder David is a master. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKCmmH-x9mI1aCu3Xr4_...
That's the one nicer thing of motorcycles, is their simplicity. This fellows videos are pleasant. In that he makes 'experimental' engines with a very modest shop. Often using a hacksaw and a BBQ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Xr1bmbZ_s
Thanks for this. Loved it!
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#344A few thoughts while reading this: In addition to a deeper understanding of engine manufacturing considerations than I even knew I cared to learn, this article helps me appreciate why people are into engine work. The perfect tolerances and synchronization of these machines makes me a little ashamed to use the word "engineer" in my title of "software engineer". There is no real comparison of the quality of the result.…
Excuse me, but modern CPUs are way more complicated than this, even if you only look at "arranging events in time". Like several orders of magnitude more complicated. Anyone who has touched VHDL/Verilog knows how delicate signal propagation is, and how crafty you have to be with the clock. And even if you never tinkered with transistors surely you've at least looked at assembly code, and the amount of painstakingly d…
The vast majority of people on this site have never written a line of C or Assembly in the past 12 months
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#345I’m a lowly mechanical engineering lecturer. I use Jupyter notebooks to teach fluid mechanics[0]. I make videos of fluid flows with Blender and embed them with the notes along with some basic Python code examples so that students are aware of how basic code can make an Engineer’s life easier (even if Matlab is the standard platform). I also embed simple 3D models with pyGEL3D[1]. It’s fine but very limited. I’m alway…
For the graphics:
- https://webglfundamentals.org/
- https://threejs.org/
For general JS: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/javascript#tuto...
There's other stuff like build tools, cross-browser, and other stuff, but that's likely to be confusing and not super necessary to begin with. The above should be enough to get you running with what it sounds like you want to do.
I appreciate you sharing those links. I'm trying to learn mechanical engineering stuff myself, if you have any further useful learning materials I would love to see them.
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#346I’m a lowly mechanical engineering lecturer. I use Jupyter notebooks to teach fluid mechanics[0]. I make videos of fluid flows with Blender and embed them with the notes along with some basic Python code examples so that students are aware of how basic code can make an Engineer’s life easier (even if Matlab is the standard platform). I also embed simple 3D models with pyGEL3D[1]. It’s fine but very limited. I’m alway…
Also I would trade you mech eng tutoring for JS tutoring, if you've got the time.
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#347How can we preserve article like this forever?
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#348How can we preserve article like this forever?
Forever is a stretch, but, being the web, you can always save the page and store it somewhere locally. It'll probably be archived by the wayback machine soon anyway.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it can't be understated how important it is to able to rotate, and move the playback forwards and backwards. It's almost like being able to hold the part in your hands, examine the reasoning behind its structure and "debug" your mental model of it by playing its operation back and forth.
It really reminded me of the educational 'toys' that I used while I was attending Montessori school. You could go at your own speed and come to understand a concept by letting you play with all the constituent parts when you felt like it - or if you saw someone else doing it and joined in.
One of the 'toys' I remember from my Montessori experience was these long bead chains. They had all different sizes, e.g. one would be a chain of 8 segments, each containing 8 beads on a rod between the joints. The '8' chain would be blue and have an associated blue cube of beads 8x8x8. I remember the '10' chain and cube was something really to be seen.
We also had really large blocks, because someone dropped one on my head.
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#350I’m a lowly mechanical engineering lecturer. I use Jupyter notebooks to teach fluid mechanics[0]. I make videos of fluid flows with Blender and embed them with the notes along with some basic Python code examples so that students are aware of how basic code can make an Engineer’s life easier (even if Matlab is the standard platform). I also embed simple 3D models with pyGEL3D[1]. It’s fine but very limited. I’m alway…
Also I would trade you mech eng tutoring for JS tutoring, if you've got the time.
I wish there were more opportunities for people to learn via “cross training” like this.
I’d love to learn more about a number of engineering disciplines by helping people who know those fields, learn how to implement the algorithms and mathematical calculations they need in Python and simultaneously, learning more about those algorithms and calculations in order to best implement them and show how best to use Python for these tasks.
But unfortunately such opportunities are few and far between outside academia and other learning oriented environments in my experience.