I caught my first glimpse of this new form of machine design application software at PackExpo 2014, while visiting the Lenze booth. Lenze’s version of this software is known as FAST (Feasibly ...

Smart people don’t put their toys away, they build machines to do it for them. Case and point: this NXT project which can sort LEGO pieces. Just dump a bucket of random blocks in a hopper on one end ...

Planning for packaging and interconnections in the early phases of a design project eliminates the chances of poor design degrading long-term reliability. The integrity of system design depends on the ...

Marina Zurkow, production still from “Mesocosm (Wink, TX)” (2012) (image courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery) Watching the final two months of 2016 play out politically made me question so many ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. When designing a control system, where the safety system is to be networked, where would you start? To understand the ...