Technology Education

The Harley Hybrid – West Philly High EVX Focus

July 26, 2012
West Philly EVX Focus with Harley electric hybrid power

Everyone knows how bad the average big city urban high school is, right? No way students could ever accomplish anything, well, except when they do. West Philadelphia High School is one of those places where you wouldn’t expect much, but the students under the direction of Simon Hauger, an ex-GE engineer, built two cars to compete for the Automotive X [...]

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3D Design Software Shows Even Free has a Cost

June 7, 2012

In the latest Make magazine, they mention two 3D design programs available on the Internet, Tinkercad and 3dTin, both offered at the now very popular price of free. After I wrote about Autodesk Inventor Fusion a few weeks ago, also free for a limited time, I couldn’t help but think, some of this free software could be very expensive and [...]

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Autodesk Inventor Fusion Mechanical Design Software Free Download

May 14, 2012

The explosion of new computer tools for anyone with a desire to work in mechanical design and manufacturing is impressive, and here is an opportunity to try out a real heavyweight from Autodesk. You can download Autodesk Inventor Fusion, which is offered as a technical preview, and use it free of charge until it expires, but that’s quite a long [...]

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