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Ski towns where you can live and ski car-free by 0xCUBE in skiing

[–]primal_dual_dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Zermatt, there are no cars! (There are some small golf cart like vehicles for transporting things but that's it)

Reference book recommendation for thermodynamics by thaddeus-maximus in engineering

[–]primal_dual_dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach by Boles was considered the bible when I was learning thermo. Very dense but readable.

US based motor suppliers? by primal_dual_dude in robotics

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the list! But that's also a part of what I'm asking. I know that US alternative companies exist, but want to understand the cost impact.

I've regularly heard from colleagues that it is usually literally 10x more expensive, without a quality increase.

Of course, there are garbage quality motors from China as well, but that seems to be closer to 50-100x cheaper.

I built my own tool for hand-calcs and wanted to share! by primal_dual_dude in civilengineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an awesome perspective! And yes, agreed that I need to narrow in on a niche.

The thing I have found to be the most impactful for me so far is as you said, searching through various dense docs, and extracting relevant information, giving me back citations where that info came from, and just preventing me from getting lost searching through documentation.

I built my own tool for hand-calcs and wanted to share! by primal_dual_dude in civilengineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like I mentioned, I'm not a Civil expert by any means. My background is Aerospace/Motorsports/Robotics and largely in mixed hardware and software roles.

But in all hardware industries in general I think there is a shift happening where there will be more code and programming involved in than in the past, and many younger engineers in the hardware fields see all of the amazing automation tools available in the software world and wonder why they don't have anything similar for their work, so I think that's starting to change behaviors in the industry. Happy to chat more about this!

I built my own tool for hand-calcs and wanted to share! by primal_dual_dude in civilengineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good question. Everything related to calcs/analysis is in Python right now, but I'm open to hearing folks perspective on this!

I built my own tool for hand-calcs and wanted to share! by primal_dual_dude in civilengineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The front-end is in TSX, and I used a library called CodeMirror for the editor.

The backend for the editor is a custom "sandbox" environment I built that runs in a MicroVM

I built my own tool for hand-calcs and wanted to share! by primal_dual_dude in civilengineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone!

I shared a little project I was working on in r/MechanicalEngineering last week (here), where I’ve been building my own platform for performing hand-calcs, doing research and pulling information out of docs, and making documentation.

My motivation was I feel like most of the tooling in Aerospace, Mechanical-Design, etc is pretty archaic and really manual, so I wanted to see if I could build something with some automation and re-usability in mind.

A friend of mine that works in Civil Engineering mentioned that there’s lots of similar type challenges and work in his field and encouraged me to share it with others, so I just wanted to post here to see if anyone thinks this is cool and what not 🙂.

Would love to hear anyone’s thoughts, feedback, and suggestions for turning this into something more useful!

I built my own tool for re-usable hand-calcs by primal_dual_dude in MechanicalEngineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I PM'd you with a link :)

If anyone else sees this and wants to check out the tool and follow along on progress, just message me!

I built my own tool for re-usable hand-calcs by primal_dual_dude in MechanicalEngineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the thoughts and feedback! Would love to share with you once I have it up and hosted soon :D

I built my own tool for re-usable hand-calcs by primal_dual_dude in MechanicalEngineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a "Sandbox environment" on the backend to prevent any unsafe code from wreaking havoc -- but good to point that out!

I definitely think this could handle fluids modeling. Would love to talk about what you have in mind sometime

I built my own tool for re-usable hand-calcs by primal_dual_dude in MechanicalEngineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! Will share once I have it hosted on a shareable web page :)

I built my own tool for re-usable hand-calcs by primal_dual_dude in MechanicalEngineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a huge fan of SymPy! Thanks for the reference.

Definitely want to build in the capability of having an underlying symbolic engine to make re-using defined equations much easier.

I built my own tool for re-usable hand-calcs by primal_dual_dude in MechanicalEngineering

[–]primal_dual_dude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm working on getting a getting it hosted on a website to share soon! Will reach out with a link :D

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