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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:13 PM
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How an Engineer folds a T-Shirt
Obviously a mechanical engineer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZKKrUXjzDY
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:15 PM
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1. When does his mother yell at him for using a box cutter against the kitchen floor tiles?
and those devices have been on sale for years
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:18 PM
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3. I was wondering about that myself
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:16 PM
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2. Nothing like recreating the damned wheel
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:20 PM
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4. Nice! Definitely not an electrical engineer, because there's no Fourier transform happening.
And it's happening in the real plane.

:7
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 02:36 PM
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13. Yup.
Much more fun to fold things into imaginary space... :)
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 02:50 PM
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15. You gotta love xkcd


Translation for those unfamiliar with the Sinc function:



I remember writing a FFT routine for my hp41c.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 03:04 PM
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16. LMAO
Oh man, I'm *so* passing that one around... :D
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:27 PM
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5. I want one!
I'll build it and keep it in the laundry room.
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 02:03 PM
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10. FlipFold
http://www.flipfold.com/
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:31 PM
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6. A *real* engineer would design a machine to do it
But I'm gonna go make me one of those cardboard thingies right now. :D
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:39 PM
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7. true
A mechanical engineer would us pneumatics. An electrical engineer would use motors.

“Mechanical Engineers build weapons; Civil Engineers build targets.”
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:46 PM
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8. get the design to a rapid prototype machine!
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 01:59 PM
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9. T-shirt folding machine upgrades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqq8eAl5Xyk
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 02:21 PM
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11. you tube is worse than du
so far as the rabbit hole effect goes
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LNM Donating Member (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 02:29 PM
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12. That's pretty cool.
I want one. Have you seen the Engineers guide to cats?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 02:39 PM
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14. Yeah, that's a good one
Classic.
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