This matches my experience also. The best engineer on a design team had an English degree and a friend's brother got a 4.0gpa with master's in engineering (from a good school) with a liberal arts undergrad language degree.
OTOH, this is extremely rare and should be evaluated on a case basis.
The ones on reptilian lizard people are really funny. Most conspiracy videos are Except for the ones with obviously mentally ill people. Those are kinda sad.
I hated English class in HS. So much that I purposely chose my major and classes so I would not have to write anything. I'm simply, due to genetics or being dropped on my head as a child, uncapable of writing.
But of the skills that has helped me the most, looking back on my professional career, my high school's over emphasis on reading and writing wins. This maybe moreso than the technical college classes, which while interesting, did not carry over into the real world that much.
I was visiting home a few years ago and on a whim stopped in and saw my fifth grade teacher whom I'd not seen in 29 years. She introduced me to the few students who were sticking around as the kid who knew more science than she did. And it was all self taught from then 30 year old st martin's press Golden Guides and a 20 year old encyclopedia set in the back of the classroom.
Unless you are doing research or are worried about stamp collecting, nothing in science changes that much especially considering what is remembered.
Back in the olden days, I had to hook up my computer to the 13" b&w tv set at night after everyone went to bed to get online @300baud and type my term papers.
This guy (one of my inspirations) started and ran a machine shop in a NYC apartment (later expanding to house a few years later, then out of NY). His channel NYCNC.
Other than a $6 tracfone for emergencies, I don't have a cell phone. That's a few hundred dollar savings per year right there (I don't make somewhat below minimum wage and have to carefully budget) and you don't need to buy all the machines at once. Most people who are into this sort of thing collect them over a lifetime.
I never heard of the term diy (in context of anything other than home remodel) before the maker movement. And I've known a couple of few who've built their own cars, engines, airplanes and boats. I guess it's because I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood where nobody called it anything, it was just something you did for fun in your garage on the weekends.
But with an aluminum tool, you can construct a cast iron or steel mill and lathe. You can trace the lineage of a $10M Mori Seiki cnc mill back to a wooden lathe. That's what making your own machine tools is all about.
Well, someone has to pay you to do it for starters. You don't expect everyone to do that much work for free, do you? Making things, while not terribly difficult, does involve a lot of work.
Yes, that's what it is. You don't need a club (though I think it would help if you wanted to learn). If you have the space, buying the required tools to build 99% of everything (including larger tools) is only going to cost a few thousand dollars. And for the parts that you can't make, just take it to a local machine shop or email your cad drawing to an online machine shop (with 3d printer or cnc sheet metal bender). For small prototype products it's more cost effective.
It would be well to realize that most tools and accessories are merely commercial versions of devices that were originally made by hand with limited equipment.
I've bought almost all of these tools off of craigslist and own everything but a surface grinder. Thy are pretty cheap and I've only spent a few thousand dollars for everything, so they can't be that high in demand. Grizzly sells the tools also for about the same price as CL if you want something new and don't mind Taiwan or China. This is the same as it has been for the last 10 years. What is new now?
A bridgeport is (was?) the standard of milling machines. You can buy them on craigslist between about $600 as high as $15k for a machine in pristine condition. They are somewhat collectible antiques to some. There are whole websites, user groups and thousands of youtube videos on how to use them and what you can make with them.
A guy who lived me built a working race car engine out of scrap metal with a lathe and a bridgeport mill. They're on ebay too and is one of the last machines I need to complete my own personal machine shop for under $10k. With a machine shop, you can build literally anything (provided you know how. And that's a software problem)
built an entire machine shop using only a 3/8" drill. He has a complete set of books how he did this. There are a number of youtube videos of people who've duplicated this work.
He goes through the process of building a lathe which is used to build each additional tool (kinda like how it happened through history.
It would be well to realize that most tools and accessories are merely commercial versions of devices that were originally made by hand with limited equipment.
-- Gingery, David J (2012-05-14). The Metal Shaper (Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap) (Kindle Locations 146-147). David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.
I haven't built anything yet, but have read the books and they are very interesting. Completely agree with DIY being renamed. I used to build things with my dad all the time growing up and particularly remember building a shopvac out of a 5gallon paint can.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not and I've posted my password here before and nothing happened.
The US GOVERNMENT leaves nothing but DEATH in its wake
See: internet
So what exactly can "they" do with my /. password?
OTOH, this is extremely rare and should be evaluated on a case basis.
There is no such thing as more or less evolved. There is no end goal to evolution.
The ones on reptilian lizard people are really funny. Most conspiracy videos are Except for the ones with obviously mentally ill people. Those are kinda sad.
It's all that some people have.
Isn't single pad encryption still safe, though less convenient?
But of the skills that has helped me the most, looking back on my professional career, my high school's over emphasis on reading and writing wins. This maybe moreso than the technical college classes, which while interesting, did not carry over into the real world that much.
Unless you are doing research or are worried about stamp collecting, nothing in science changes that much especially considering what is remembered.
Back in the olden days, I had to hook up my computer to the 13" b&w tv set at night after everyone went to bed to get online @300baud and type my term papers.
There will always be excuses for those who seek them.
Other than a $6 tracfone for emergencies, I don't have a cell phone. That's a few hundred dollar savings per year right there (I don't make somewhat below minimum wage and have to carefully budget) and you don't need to buy all the machines at once. Most people who are into this sort of thing collect them over a lifetime.
As I get older, I'm more amazed at the things my grandfather did, especially considering the limitations they had 70 years ago.
I never heard of the term diy (in context of anything other than home remodel) before the maker movement. And I've known a couple of few who've built their own cars, engines, airplanes and boats. I guess it's because I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood where nobody called it anything, it was just something you did for fun in your garage on the weekends.
But with an aluminum tool, you can construct a cast iron or steel mill and lathe. You can trace the lineage of a $10M Mori Seiki cnc mill back to a wooden lathe. That's what making your own machine tools is all about.
Well, someone has to pay you to do it for starters. You don't expect everyone to do that much work for free, do you? Making things, while not terribly difficult, does involve a lot of work.
Yes, that's what it is. You don't need a club (though I think it would help if you wanted to learn). If you have the space, buying the required tools to build 99% of everything (including larger tools) is only going to cost a few thousand dollars. And for the parts that you can't make, just take it to a local machine shop or email your cad drawing to an online machine shop (with 3d printer or cnc sheet metal bender). For small prototype products it's more cost effective.
It would be well to realize that most tools and accessories are merely commercial versions of devices that were originally made by hand with limited equipment.
-- Gingery, David J
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I've bought almost all of these tools off of craigslist and own everything but a surface grinder. Thy are pretty cheap and I've only spent a few thousand dollars for everything, so they can't be that high in demand. Grizzly sells the tools also for about the same price as CL if you want something new and don't mind Taiwan or China. This is the same as it has been for the last 10 years. What is new now?
A guy who lived me built a working race car engine out of scrap metal with a lathe and a bridgeport mill. They're on ebay too and is one of the last machines I need to complete my own personal machine shop for under $10k. With a machine shop, you can build literally anything (provided you know how. And that's a software problem)
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It would be well to realize that most tools and accessories are merely commercial versions of devices that were originally made by hand with limited equipment.
-- Gingery, David J (2012-05-14). The Metal Shaper (Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap) (Kindle Locations 146-147). David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.
I haven't built anything yet, but have read the books and they are very interesting. Completely agree with DIY being renamed. I used to build things with my dad all the time growing up and particularly remember building a shopvac out of a 5gallon paint can.
If they're trying to make it as difficult as possible, they're really not doing a good job at it. They could easily repair much more difficult.
digikey.com is much cheaper and has the parts you need, but you have to wait a few days.