If you’re a hardware designer, the hardest part of any project is always the part with human interaction. …

The coronavirus pandemic has put supply chains under intense scrutiny. While most reporting on this focuses on the delivery of essentials to grocery stores, it’s also found in the engineering of high-tech medical equipment. A few years ago, one of a handful of Americans still living in an iron lung…

If there is one thing the world learned about this month, it’s supply chains. There is no shortage of toilet paper in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s not as if people are using more toilet paper while under quarantine. The shortages of toilet paper on supermarket shelves…

The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, is currently sweeping across the globe. Infection rates are doubling every few days and models by epidemiologists indicate most of the world will be infected in just a few months. …

Supply chain management is a hard problem for engineers to solve. There are fake chips everywhere, and those chips may inexplicably make it into production. This means op-amps that don’t have the right capabilities, capacitors that are the wrong value, and chips that simply don’t work. Derf Electronics in Poughkeepsie…

Someone does something the wrong way and I get mad about it, 5G is coming, and so is 5nm, Vatican responds to AI, and Efficiency at Scale Efficiency goes up at scale, who knew? Like it or not, the last decade of computing can be defined by The Cloud. Need a server? Amazon’s got it. Need to…

The Startup Boom Has Bust, The Internet of Things is Terrible, Baby Yoda LED Wall, We Might Be Done With Coronavirus! The Startup Boom Has Bust For those of you who weren’t around in the late 90s, here’s a quick refresher. Sears didn’t think that whole ‘Internet’ thing would work out, but let me tell…

Despite the problems Boeing is facing over the 737 Max fiasco, the market for airliners has never been better. A report from Airbus says nearly 40,000 aircraft will be needed over the next twenty years. That’s a market worth multiple trillions of dollars. Boeing and Airbus have captured the market…

Nintendo Playstation! Coronavirus Is Making Manufacturing Difficult! Aronofsky-esque! Vinyl is hot! There are far, far, better things you could do with that money. Yes, a Nintendo Playstation exists. It began as a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony in the early 90s to put games on a CD-ROM. The deal fell through, but not before about 200 prototype units were produced. Only one…