Curvy Furniture and Bending Wood
Bending wood isn't as hard as it might seem. It really comes down to keeping the wood wet, hot and thin, while clamping it around a curved mold.
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May 21, 2009
Senior Design At 100mph Part-5
GREAT NEWS!! IT FLIES!!! Be sure to see our Flight Video, Photos, and Final Presentation!
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May 17, 2009
Cars I Once Knew
Before I started building websites, my living was made by hustlin'. I would find beat up cars, put a good face on them and sell them. I went through more than a dozen cars before I finished, and it was a lot of hard work! Some were easy electronic fixes, ...
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May 10, 2009
Spray Paint and Cotton
Needing some new t-shirts for summer, and the perpetually poor person I am, I thought I'd try my hand at t-shirt design. Here are the results! Each shirt was stenciled with masking tape, then spray painted. In the future, I will try ironing on the masking tape, as some peeling ...
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May 1, 2009
Senior Design at 100mph - Part 4
After designing the plane and creating water jet files, the next step was to cut them out of plywood with the waterjet.
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March 21, 2009
bouncydiv.js
Here is a nifty little javascript script using Damped Harmonic Oscillations. It allows you to have a div on your page bounce around as the user scrolls, much like the sidebar ads on this website. This script makes a div scroll down with the screen. Its most useful for ...
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March 21, 2009
Damped Harmonic Oscillation
If you look to the right side of this website, you may notice something unusual. As you scroll down the page, the pesky ad-bar on the side of the screen just wont go away! Ignoring it won't help, that thing is persistent! After your initial annoyance wears off, you may also ...
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March 21, 2009
Senior Design at 100mph - Part 3
Calculations have to be backed up by real data at some point. That real data has to be gathered by someone, somehow. That is why our next step was to perform thrust testing. We first needed to test our engine, tune it and make sure everything was working. As well, we wanted ...
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February 17, 2009
Senior Design At 100mph - Part 2
Now that we the design phase is complete, our next phase was to construct a test wing to allow us to perform tests that would validate our calculations, and ensure that our design is strong enough. Since the wing is symmetrical across the fuselage, we will only be building one ...
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February 10, 2009