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Engineering resources. Because life's too short to reinvent the wheel.
Design
Design FUNdaMENTALs
MIT Professor Alex Slocum's ME/product design guide book
Thermodynamics
My greatest resource in completing MIT's mechanical engineering's first thermodynamics and fluids course was these notes from the MIT aero/astro department
2700+ Mechanism
​Animations
Thousands of mechanisms, categorized and explained
Ingress Protection Tips
How to design for resisting water ingress in harsh environments
Photonics EDU
Optics topics. Light guides, lenses, plastic optics, fiber optics, and more.
MIT 2.75
​Design Stuff
Resources compiled for MIT medical device design course, incl. GD&T, snap fits, prototyping ethos, and more.
Frameworks for
​Strategic Thinking
A collection of strategic thinking models, from hype cycles to the BCG box
Manufacturing

Injection molding

Part and Mold Design
Injection Molding 1
Part + mold design

Metal processes

Metal Manufacturing
Extensive details on manufacturing processes for metals, such as casting, forming, and drawing

Costs

Part Cost Estimator
CustomPartNet is great for getting ballpark numbers on part and tooling costs based on process and complexity

Table - Chemical
Resistance for Plastics
Compare material properties for your project
MakeItFrom
Check this when evaluating the suitability of a certain plastic for your application
Making stuff
This to That
Great place to start in choosing an adhesive.
Adhesive types
MIT D-Lab's brief guide to adhesive selection
Electronics
Battery University
Everything you wanted to know about batteries
Speaker Design
How to design small speakers into consumer electronics
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  • Work
    • Self-cleaning Water Bottle
    • MedPOD
    • eHealth Station
    • Superfeet 3D Printed Insoles
    • Augmented Reality Helmet
    • HelmetHub Kiosk System
    • Thermoelectric Phone Charger
    • Jedi Challenges
  • About
  • Play
    • Crochet
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