Awkward Engineer - Blog

The AwkEng Comes Back Online to Talk About Going Offline.

Hi all, Today's post revisits ideas around my Receipt Printer, my Physical Trello board, and Staying Offline. I'm interested in a new iteration, wh...

What the AwkEng Has Learned About Setting Goals

Hi all, Today's post is about Goals, and partly for my own benefit, attempts to consolidate and summarize what I've learned from personal exper...

The AwkEng Organizes the Crayons

The AwkEng Organizes the Crayons

Hi all, I hold it as a truth that Crayola brand crayons are the best and all other brands of crayon are inferior. Other crayons just aren't as smoo...

The AwkEng Stays Off the Internet

Books That Were Game Changers

Hi all, Today's blog post is about game changers. These are the books that literally changed my game, meaning they changed my approach to problem s...

The AwkEng Builds a Better Mouse Trap Catapult

The AwkEng Builds a Better Mouse Trap Catapult

Hi all, Today's post is about advancing the state of the art in mouse trap driven catapult design. We'll meander for a bit and talk about the backs...

The AwkEng Tries to Ask (Scientists) the Right Questions

Hi all, Today's post is about working with scientists and finding appropriate ways to report status and drive communication in larger groups. I've ...

AwkEng Calendar, 2023

AwkEng Calendar, 2023

Hi all! I've long been fascinated with calendar visualizations, particularly ones that make it easier to correlate physical distance with temporal ...

New AwkEng Poster - System of Eroding Goals

New AwkEng Poster - System of Eroding Goals

Hi all, Today's post is about Systems Thinking, and a systems diagram that resonated with me on a personal level, after reading a book called The F...

AwkEng Update - Hodgepodge and Jobs Edition

AwkEng Update - Hodgepodge and Jobs Edition

Hi all, Lots of odds and ends in today's post. Jobs Update - Helping Friends Within my personal network, I've had a good handful of people I know t...

The AwkEng Enjoys Fall in New England

The AwkEng Enjoys Fall in New England

No post today, just photos from a trip to western Mass this past weekend.

The AwkEng Crowd Sources an EE Consult

The AwkEng Crowd Sources an EE Consult

Hi all! Clock Update The pre-programmed microchips I wrote about last week arrived. I took a live, working Clock on my desk from a previous batch a...