element14 Community
element14 Community
    Register Log In
  • Site
  • Search
  • Log In Register
  • Community Hub
    Community Hub
    • What's New on element14
    • Feedback and Support
    • Benefits of Membership
    • Personal Blogs
    • Members Area
    • Achievement Levels
  • Learn
    Learn
    • Ask an Expert
    • eBooks
    • element14 presents
    • Learning Center
    • Tech Spotlight
    • STEM Academy
    • Webinars, Training and Events
    • Learning Groups
  • Technologies
    Technologies
    • 3D Printing
    • FPGA
    • Industrial Automation
    • Internet of Things
    • Power & Energy
    • Sensors
    • Technology Groups
  • Challenges & Projects
    Challenges & Projects
    • Design Challenges
    • element14 presents Projects
    • Project14
    • Arduino Projects
    • Raspberry Pi Projects
    • Project Groups
  • Products
    Products
    • Arduino
    • Avnet & Tria Boards Community
    • Dev Tools
    • Manufacturers
    • Multicomp Pro
    • Product Groups
    • Raspberry Pi
    • RoadTests & Reviews
  • About Us
    About the element14 Community
  • Store
    Store
    • Visit Your Store
    • Choose another store...
      • Europe
      •  Austria (German)
      •  Belgium (Dutch, French)
      •  Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
      •  Czech Republic (Czech)
      •  Denmark (Danish)
      •  Estonia (Estonian)
      •  Finland (Finnish)
      •  France (French)
      •  Germany (German)
      •  Hungary (Hungarian)
      •  Ireland
      •  Israel
      •  Italy (Italian)
      •  Latvia (Latvian)
      •  
      •  Lithuania (Lithuanian)
      •  Netherlands (Dutch)
      •  Norway (Norwegian)
      •  Poland (Polish)
      •  Portugal (Portuguese)
      •  Romania (Romanian)
      •  Russia (Russian)
      •  Slovakia (Slovak)
      •  Slovenia (Slovenian)
      •  Spain (Spanish)
      •  Sweden (Swedish)
      •  Switzerland(German, French)
      •  Turkey (Turkish)
      •  United Kingdom
      • Asia Pacific
      •  Australia
      •  China
      •  Hong Kong
      •  India
      •  Japan
      •  Korea (Korean)
      •  Malaysia
      •  New Zealand
      •  Philippines
      •  Singapore
      •  Taiwan
      •  Thailand (Thai)
      •  Vietnam
      • Americas
      •  Brazil (Portuguese)
      •  Canada
      •  Mexico (Spanish)
      •  United States
      Can't find the country/region you're looking for? Visit our export site or find a local distributor.
  • Translate
  • Profile
  • Settings
Engineering Life
  • Community Hub
  • More
Engineering Life
Blog
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • Documents
  • Polls
  • Files
  • Members
  • Mentions
  • Sub-Groups
  • Tags
  • More
  • Cancel
  • New
Join Engineering Life to participate - click to join for free!

Blog

  • Tags
  • Subscribe by email
  • More
  • Cancel
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews… Alien: Covenant

    Catwell
    Catwell
    (Images via and TM of Twentieth Century Fox)  It’s hard not to feel letdown by sci-fi these days. Ghost in the Shell, Life, Passengers, Transformers The Last Knight, all glorious looking wastes of time. To add to that, these films are ...
    • 12 Jul 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews… Transformers The Last Knight (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    (Spoilers ahead)  It’s nonstop angry people in this film. The Autobots are angry. The military is angry. Science people are angry. Every main human character is angry. The Decepticons are, of course, angry. Even a new polite-butler rob...
    • 2 Jul 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... LIFE (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
     Life, the movie, is a let down. Been done, cliché, a non-science science fiction monster movie. Predictable to the end.One thing I learned from watching… “life” is precious, don’t waste it watching Life (2017). That said, allow me to expla...
    • 9 Jun 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... The Wave (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
     It’s another science-hero movie, and it’s a good one.  Spoilers, be warned.... Geologist Kristian Eikjord is about to leave picturesque Geirangerfjorden for the much flatter Stavanger… but on last days of anything, does that day ever ...
    • 26 May 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... Deepwater Horizon (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Deepwater Horizon: Why Corporate Greed, Ineptitude and Shortcuts are Hazardous to Your Health. Shoddy cement job, failed equipment and erupting methane gas, what could go wrong? (Image credit Summit Entertainment)  Deepwater Horizon is about as ...
    • 1 May 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... Ghost in the Shell (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Maybe the One Movie Where a Live Action Adaptation isn’t Horrible.This image of a robotic Geisha is one of the incredible props designed by the Weta Workshop that is featured in the Ghost in the Shell. (Image credit DreamWorks) Why does it seem ...
    • 22 Apr 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews… Shin Godzilla (2016) – Science vs. the Beast

    Catwell
    Catwell
    I avoided Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence) for looking silly. But a bored, trapped audience will watch anything. I had no choice. Either this or stare at a wall. I’ve watched the wall too much, so… I’m glad I did watch this Godzilla movie. I ...
    • 17 Apr 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... Logan (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Logan: Why Kids and Telepaths are Nothing but Problems. Image credit 20TH Century Fox.  Yes, I am a fan of Marvel comics and have an extensive collection of X-Men and Wolverine issues dating back to the mid 80’s and some going back a decade earl...
    • 31 Mar 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... The Railway Man: When a Simple Radio can bring Salvation or a World of Hurt

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Image credit Lionsgate.  Spoilers Ahead ─  At the beginning of time the clock struck one- Then dropped the dew and the clock struck two- From the dew grew a tree and the clock struck three- The tree made a door and the clock struck four- Ma...
    • 29 Mar 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Snowden (2016) & kind-of Citizenfour (2014)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    LEFT - Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden from Snowden (2016)  RIGHT - The real Edward Snowden from Citizenfour (2014) In my opinion, Snowden is a dramatized prequel/sequel to Citizenfour (2014), the real life documentary of Edward Snow...
    • 17 Mar 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Star Trek Beyond - Or Why the USS Yorktown Needs its Own Movie

    Catwell
    Catwell
    All image courtesy of Paramount Pictures.  A misunderstanding is how it begins, revenge is what’s sought, and the adventure continues- that’s Star Trek Beyond in a nutshell. Obviously, there will be some Spoilers ahead, so stop now if you haven’...
    • 10 Mar 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Hidden Figures (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    www.youtube.com/watch Kids have it easy today. Their phones could compute the orbital trajectories John Glenn took in 1962. I think there is even a browser-based calculator too. Human beings were “the computers” back when Hidden Figures takes pl...
    • 3 Mar 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions (2017) - aka, crazy engineer plays a card game

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Released in 2016, but Jan 27, 2017 inside the USA. (Poster and all images/video via Konami & Screenvision Media) An anime film review? What’s this have to do with engineering? Well… It features one of the most egotistical genius-engineers in...
    • 25 Feb 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Arrival (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Arrival Ship concept art. (via Conceptartworld) Arrival is one of those films where people are going to say, “Well, you have to read the noooovella it’s based on. EYEEEE... read it. It’s far superior to the fiiiilm.”  It’s true, though, but...
    • 17 Feb 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews The Theory of Everything (2014)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Actors portraying Stephen and Jane Hawking early in their relationship. --- Big spoilers below! ---   I teared up at the movie, I’ll admit. Early on too. Right around when Stephen Hawking, played by Eddie Redmayne, was in an early rela...
    • 10 Feb 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews… Sherlock season 4 the FINAL episode (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Nice move, brother. (image via BBS)  Since it is rumored that season 4 was the last for Sherlock, I thought I would expand a bit more on the last episode. If you want, you can read my thoughts on the previous two episodes after this link… n...
    • 3 Feb 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: SHERLOCK Season 4 Has An Appointment in Samarra (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
                             (Sherlock and a friend's dog in Season 4 - via Hartswood Films/BBC)  SHERLOCK, starring Be...
    • 27 Jan 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews the film.. Kill Command (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Fausto De Martini created the concept art for the SARs in the film Kill Command. (via Fausto Design) Kill Command is set at some unspecified point in the near future (Future UK?). It opens with a synthesizer generated “SciFi drone of doom”. You ...
    • 20 Jan 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Passengers (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    This review of Passengers is loaded with spoilers.  If you haven’t seen the film yet, go watch it and come back.  Jennifer Lawrence’s character Aurora Lane is a beautiful writer and the absolute last person you want help from if you find yo...
    • 14 Jan 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Spectral 2016 - a Netflix Original Movie

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Concept art of a key scene in Spectral (via conceptworld) Spectral is a 93-minute feature length Netflix Original movie, and part of their aggressively expanding output of self-produced content. Starring actor James Badge Dale as DARPA engineer/...
    • 6 Jan 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: reviews Rogue One – A Star Wars Story (2016)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Above, Rogue One visual story guide page.... (All images courtesy of Disney and Lucas Film)  Spoilers Spoilers, below! SpoilersSpoilersYou’ve been warned! Spoilers, ahead! Rogue One suffers, like the other films, from a lack of re...
    • 30 Dec 2016
  • Norways' pixel art currency is turning heads and inspiring high-fives

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Norway's new, rad, pixel art currency Some people work themselves to the bone for the almighty dollar. But, let's face it, our legal tender is pretty drab compared to European currency. However, Norway is setting a new, higher standard w...
    • 31 Oct 2014
  • Engineering On Friday: Engineer Joke Series - the breadboard build

    Catwell
    Catwell
    >Click the image<>Click the image<  This joke made the whole lab laugh. But is it funny to everyone else?  Cabehttp://twitter.com/Cabe_Atwell See more Engineering On Friday comics in the Engineering Life group.
    • 4 May 2012
  • Engineering On Friday: The Field Engineer

    Catwell
    Catwell
    >Click the image<>Click the image<  Truly an overlooked, underappreciated part of the team. Remember, they always make it work. Read some stories from out in the field:The military's uncelebrated heroes, the Joint Robotics ...
    • 27 Apr 2012
  • Engineering On Friday: Down on the Organic-LED farm

    Catwell
    Catwell
    >Click the image<>Click the image<  To some extent organic-electronics are natural, but they are not quite picked from the vine. Read about what exactly are organic electronics. Cabehttp://twitter.com/Cabe_e14 See...
    • 20 Apr 2012
<>
element14 Community

element14 is the first online community specifically for engineers. Connect with your peers and get expert answers to your questions.

  • Members
  • Learn
  • Technologies
  • Challenges & Projects
  • Products
  • Store
  • About Us
  • Feedback & Support
  • FAQs
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Legal and Copyright Notices
  • Sitemap
  • Cookies

An Avnet Company © 2026 Premier Farnell Limited. All Rights Reserved.

Premier Farnell Ltd, registered in England and Wales (no 00876412), registered office: Farnell House, Forge Lane, Leeds LS12 2NE.

ICP 备案号 10220084.

Follow element14

  • X
  • Facebook
  • linkedin
  • YouTube