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Issue #24 Military Inspiration
New and emerging technologies can enhance your invention or product, so you might peruse academic papers published by universities (or not). The places where scientific experiments are conducted are often universities, sometimes a few large companies have research labs but mostly its in universities. Wherever science is being done, not far away are people who… Read more
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Newsletter Issue #23 Watching Lasers
No, don’t watch lasers, one tiny glimpse and you’re blind for the rest of your life. It’s a common warning on YouTube reviews that you need to be very sure that you have high quality eye protection when playing with even the cheapest and weakest laser machines. Last week I was talking about how I… Read more
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Issue#16 Bureau Services and Fits
G’day aspiring engineers Now that I know that many of you are learning Fusion 360 so that you can design things to make on your 3D printer, I’m glad I bought my first one last year. A basic old Ender 3. I’ve made a few things, that’s the good news but I’ve also had a… Read more
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When Inspiration Strikes
“What to do after you come up with an invention idea.” is the title for this video by Stephen Keys of Inventrite TV Here are ten points to consider. Stephen shoots down the most common misconceptions about inventing but he also gives you a step by step path for covering all the bases including intellectual… Read more
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Newsletter #6
The Mild Mannered Brad Tallis G’day aspiring engineers I’ve almost worked through my list of favourite Fusion 360 resources. Most of them are Youtubers with channels about Fusion 360 but some are the official Autodesk resources. The last few issues have pointed you to the best ways to get help in the Help menu up… Read more
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Fusion 360 – The Best Way to Get Help
G’day aspiring engineers! I hope you all can understand me when I say that I love to share with you about some of the other great Youtube channels which inspire me with the things Fusion 360 can do. I love to hear about the things you use it for, your hobbies and projects, some of… Read more
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Newsletter Issue #2
G’day aspiring engineers! Thankyou to all who read the first issue of the Future Engineering Newlsetter and special thanks to all those who took the time to complete the feedback survey. This week we’ll briefly review the survey results and then I want to review another Youtube channel you might like to know about. Survey… Read more
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The Future Engineering Newsletter
1st Issue Here is the first issue of the Future Engineering Newsletter. It was sent out to a small subset of subscribers, that is, those who have downloaded the free technical drawings for the 16 Basic Tutorials on the Future Engineering Youtube Channel. Part of the download process includes signing up for the newsletter but… Read more
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The Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution can be divided up into stages but we’ll get onto the stages of the industrial revolution later, here we just want to talk about the Industrial Revolution in general. Its still unfolding as we speak. We live in an age of rapid technological change and my main interest is to see where… Read more
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The Three Things All CAD Programs Have in Common.
(We’re talking about mechanical CAD programs here rather than the architectural ones.) Here are the three things: 1. they have a part modelling environment, 2. an assembly modelling environment and 3. a drafting environment. A lot of these mechanical CAD programs are built on the same underlying kernel. That is the foundational code that runs… Read more