Disclaimer: I attend the Master’s program at Brown University’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and, well before I ever dreamed of attending Brown, I settled in Providence. It is my favorite city in America. Providence, home to a populace that largely lives paycheck-to-paycheck just barely on the safer side of the…

“Myself” is a strange portmanteau birthed of the linguistic inconvenience of attempting to describe intangibilities discovered during the inward gaze: “While I was building that bird house, I missed the nail with the hammer and hit myself,” or “I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming so I pinched myself.” Especially…

Industry is fond of the notion that designers and engineers fail to see eye-to-eye and this tension results in avoidable design and engineering failures. It’s a bizarre point of pride among the two camps. Designers, and particularly the industrial designer crowd of which I was and still am a part…

In the start-uppy lingospeak that permeates modern business culture and design, the term MVP (minimum viable product) is often thrown around with reckless abandon: Start Up Bro 1: Bro, did you see that we achieved sustained 31% quarter on quarter growth over the last three quarters? Profitability, schmoffitability. We’re growth…

There are two types of companies in the world that understand perception as reality better than everyone else: first and foremost are communications firms, and the second is Facebook. Although its lack of self-awareness with regard to its own influence is sometimes shocking, both Facebook’s foundational thesis and raison…

The computational needs of designer-y/engineer-y types are generally both esoteric and intensive in that the demands that we place on our tech are both computational resource-heavy and require specific hardware like, for example, 3D trackballs and mice. Few civilians care to learn the nuances of the parametization of physics simulations…

If current technologists/media/companies are to be believed, the future of autonomous driving is characterized by previously consumed moments of absolute free time in the midst of traffic while sitting in a vehicle that- by and large- looks the same as your car does now. Entire marketing campaigns and the future…

Before returning that brushed motor that I later regretted purchasing, I plunked down a whole $12.99USD on a DC motor controller. Just shy of thirteen bucks for any sort of complex electrical component is a hell of a deal. So just how good of a deal is this controller? As…

So remember all that hub-bub I made about not being able to find a suitable brushless DC motor and blah blah blah back in Part Three and then again in Part Five of this slow motion train crash that is this Medium-based build documentation? It turns out that was fake…