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  • Author Author: bluescreen
  • Date Created: 16 Jul 2015 2:57 AM Date Created
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What pictures capture your love of engineering?

bluescreen
bluescreen
16 Jul 2015

Hi Guys.

 

It's been an action-packed couple of weeks. I attended a conference in New York where I got to hang out with the ever-amazing GardenState, met with our team in Chicago to discuss our plans for the second half, took a few days to go camping with friends in Santa Barbara, then went up to Silicon Valley to attend the Wearable Technologies conference where I got to see some truly mind-bending stuff. image I love meeting electronic engineers doing incredible things with their talent, and the past few weeks have given me a nice amount of it.

 

I'm back home now, and have been going through a bunch of photos. Some of these are pictures of amazing scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, or engineers like Ben Heck and Jeri Ellsworth. Some are images of my kids discovering the love of old-school geek culture. Some are of my own intrepid forays into the world of making.

 

What images capture your love of engineering?

 

Post them as comments below! I can't wait to see them. image

 

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Seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson in LA this year. My kids look up to him like he's Iron Man.

 

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A father teaching his son to solder, MakerFaire 2010.

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Hanging out with ciorga in Los Angeles last year. I learn so much from him that includes and goes beyond engineering.

 

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No engineer should be without a BeagleBone Black! Or pals like johnbeetem and fustini. Design West 2013

 

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An original tape pulley from Alan Turing's Colossus machine used at Bletchley Park. Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley.

 

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Connecting to my new BeagleBone Black, around 2014. I love how new technology can revive old technology like my crappy Dell.

 

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Teaching my kids how to build a working battery with lemons and LEDs in 2010.

 

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A rare glimpse into a Prius battery, 2012.

 

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Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Where they controlled the Mars Rovers!

 

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Teaching basic circuits through breadboarding, 2011. Does it get more beautiful than this?

 

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Fixing a sick synthesizer, 2013. I'd owned it since 1997 but had never had the confidence to take it apart before.

 

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One of the coolest things about engineers is that they are always learning! vandana teaching a workshop in San Jose last year.

 

 

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Rahm holding up his first soldering job in 2013-- an Adafruit persistence-of-vision kit. (OK, maybe I helped a little.)

 

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Building a radio by hand! My newest project.

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  • DAB
    DAB over 9 years ago +1
    I am not sure when I first developed my interest in science and engineering. I do remember asking to go down to the gym to watch the live broadcasts of the early Mercury missions and just soaking up the…
  • DAB
    DAB over 9 years ago in reply to bluescreen +1
    I spent nearly 35 years in the aerospace industry working on a very wide range of projects. Plus I have been an amateur astronomer since I was ten and have done astrophotography, which won me an award…
  • bluescreen
    bluescreen over 9 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +1
    Now where have I seen that before? I have it!
  • bluescreen
    bluescreen over 9 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Now where have I seen that before?

     

    I have it!

     

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    johnbeetem over 9 years ago

    Go ahead!  Do try this at home!

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    johnbeetem over 9 years ago

    I've always loved subways, especially the Paris Metro trains with rubber tires.

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    BART trains may look more futuristic, but you should hear those wheels shriek between 24th St. Mission and Glen Park image

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    johnbeetem over 9 years ago

    I found this sort of thing very inspiring when I was a lad:

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    bluescreen over 9 years ago in reply to DAB

    That's a great quote! I have to read your book, too.

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