Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIBTbumd1Q: We’ve all dealt with gears to transfer power from motors to things, this is a really cool alternative using rope. It’s about a Capstan Drive which was something I’d not heard of before but is actually really neat.
https://digilent.com/blog/why-do-electronic-components-have-such-odd-values/ This is a neat explanation as to why you so often see electronic components with values that don’t seem right(such as a 22ohm resister not a 20ohm)
https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/from-the-circle-to-epicycles#epicycles-a-flower Here is a cool site that goes into some of the basics about Fourier mathematics, which is aspect of math that has huge practical use, he does a great job breaking it down into more understandable bits looking forward to him continuing to expand on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIL-pU82dOs This is a cool use of 3d printing and concrete to roll his own precision instrument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3Iieejyg8 This old tony does a great job explaining things while also being highly entertaining check out his video on over center mechanisms.
https://marcosticks.org/ten-thousand-ways/ Just like holding a pen there are a wide variety of ways to hold chopsticks, maybe if you struggle using chopsticks try one of these other holds.
https://youtu.be/Qr-1fxX8tvo?si=5s24ow26KI129nYx Josh sent me this cool video talking about the process of heat treating metal and some of the underlying changes that go on in this process. This video reminded me of another awesome article from 3yrs I read https://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/03/25/cpm-magnacut/ A knife/metallurgist enthusiast had an idea of a formula that could yield a better knife steel and then he went to one of the biggest steel makers and convinced them to try his formula, and today his idea is the undisputed best knife steel out there.
https://suanto.com/blog/ This months post is getting long but I thought this one was worth including, its a 13 part story about how a man built his own ROV to find a missing person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCg3qNnh59w This is an awesome project with tons of work that went into the mechanical design/ideas and a really cool end result.

Book of the month

“The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt, this is an interesting book that first came out in the mid 1980’s but like many things thing lessons learned/taught by it are timeless. It focuses on bottlenecks and production efficiency in general. One interesting thing about this book is it’s written like a novel that can be read as such, but in reading it there are tons of useful lessons/ideas conveyed and promotes continuous improvement.

Cool historical fact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob This is a super interesting nuclear test, not because of the test itself mind you, but because in this test we(the US) sent a 2000lb manhole cover to space at a rate of 41miles/second. The nerds out there will argue it disintegrated in our atmosphere, but I like to believe that lid is our most ambitious satellite launch.