Recent content by Creel

Oh yeah, and depending on your skill level and access to materials, I'm willing to bet that there will be a huge rise in demand for people re-tooling their old child's Power Wheels mobiles into pretty much no-joke electric go-karts pretty much. Check out this quick news article about a dad that...

Welcome to the forums! It's good to see that you have so much enthusiasm about Engineering! Personally, I learn a bit better when I do a hands-on approach rather than reading a "for dummies" book. I suggest picking up a small kit for robotics, something very simple to start with...

I think the key here is to find something that has short peaks of demand, but not high enough to warrant the start-up costs of mass production. Off the top of my head examples would be things like Swords/Shields/Platemail armor for Renn Faire people and Halloween costumes (although renn Faire...

Ahh good, this goes way beyond Evolution and allows me to skip pretty much my entire Geology class, good deal! Also, being able to round Pi to 3 is going to make Trig a snap! 1 Kings 7:23 "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his...

I think labs would be pretty important to really seal the deal on a concept and make things interesting. You can do a ton of them with very few tools as well. hot wheels and such are fine, but if his parents own an air hockey table or a pool table, that'd be top notch for momentum labs and be...

Oh yeah, he goes into the Gun Shop and orders a "Plasma Rifle with 40 watt range" in addition to a lot of conventional weapons. A) How is Watts (1 Joule per second) an effective measurement of the distance a Plasma Rifle can shoot? (I think in this case, I'd pretend that Plasma is merely...

Can you give us any more detail on what exactly you'd be looking for? Maybe give us at least 1 example of your own? I am pretty sure it's not a homework question since this movie is about 25 years old and rated R, so unless the prof just loves Terminator 1 then he's kinda out of touch...

I wouldn't start sweating it already until school actually starts, MyInk. Your University may have a much different pace and starting point than Yale or MIT physics. Is the University you're going to known for its top-tier engineering or physics grads? If not, then you're probably not even going...

It's definitely not a bad idea, MIT also has open courseware that is good for a watch. You did say that you had no physics experience under your belt but you didn't mention any math experience. If you are currently in Calc 1, or perhaps under Calc 1, don't get too intimidated by the professors...

You can probable get by without a computer for quite some time, but you're doing yourself a disservice by not having the vast amount of information and assistance that a good computer and internet connection in your own home/dorm/apartment can provide. If your college/univeristy doesn't have a...

I am torn between this idea and DaveC's devious idea, but DaveC's looks like it might be a bit more expensive than trying to do it with the base component parts first. Do you think it's possible to have this: http://discounthuntingsupplies.net/node/21353 powering one or more of these...

Hello, I usually just lurk around the forums as a first year engineering student, but I'm 27 years old. I have my bachelor's in Accounting, but I'm not very passionate about it...anyway, that's a whole different thread, but the point I'm getting across here is that my practical knowledge of...