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Artful updates about mechanical creations. Click to read Poems from a Workshop, by Surjan Singh, a Substack publication.

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2026 2

  1. Idle Thoughts on Saving the World
  2. A Two Minute Video, Two Years in the Making

2024 3

  1. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 42
  2. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 41
  3. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 40

2023 9

  1. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 39
  2. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 38
  3. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 37
  4. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 36
  5. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 35
  6. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 34
  7. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 33
  8. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 32
  9. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 31

2022 21

  1. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 30
  2. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 29
  3. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 28
  4. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 27
  5. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 26
  6. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 25
  7. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 24
  8. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 23
  9. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 22
  10. Introducing the Uncage
  11. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 21
  12. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 20
  13. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 19
  14. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 18
  15. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 17
  16. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 16
  17. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 15
  18. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 14
  19. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 13
  20. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 12
  21. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 11

2021 23

  1. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 10
  2. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 9
  3. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 8
  4. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 7
  5. An Inventor’s Quest for the NHL Pt. 6
  6. An Inventor’s Quest for the NHL Pt. 5
  7. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 4
  8. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 3
  9. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 2
  10. An Inventor's Quest for the NHL Pt. 1
  11. Restoring Accountability
  12. One Year Review
  13. The Most Expensive Number in Engineering
  14. An Incomplete Success
  15. The Parable of the Rod and the Rope
  16. Imagining a Realistic Shelob
  17. #45 - Am I Building Sustainably?
  18. #44 - Reality Check
  19. #43 - Bend It Like a Beam
  20. #42 - From Failure to Failure
  21. #41 - A Descent Into Mold-Induced Madness
  22. #40 - Confronting the Unknown
  23. #39 - A New Project

2020 38

  1. #38 - Finally, a Finale
  2. #37 - How Writing is Making Me a Better Engineer
  3. #36 - How To Make a Natural Composite
  4. #35 - Six Month Review
  5. #34 - A Bumbling Breakthrough
  6. #33 - Book Bits: "Discovering" by Root-Bernstein
  7. #32 - One Small Step In Know-How, One Giant Leap In Confidence
  8. #31 - A Composite of Milk and Linen
  9. #30 - Composites in Plain English Pt. 5
  10. #29 - Another Epoxy Alternative: Milk
  11. #28 - Composites in Plain English Pt. 4
  12. #27 - The Way Things Break
  13. #26 - World's First Hide Glue Composite
  14. #25 - Composites in Plain English Pt. 3
  15. #24 - Baby Steps (A Fiberglass Part)
  16. #23 - Craftsmanship & Modern Manufacturing
  17. #22 - Misadventures in Mold-making
  18. #21 - Composites in Plain English Pt. 2
  19. #20 - Experiments in Homemade Composite Tooling
  20. #19 - Otto Lilienthal
  21. #18 - How Does Stiffness Attract Load?
  22. #17 - Composites in Plain English Pt. 1
  23. #16 - Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures
  24. #15 - The Saab 96 Project
  25. #14 - Environmental 'Cure-All's
  26. #13 - Cultural Differences on Stiffness
  27. #12 - In Defense of Bad Ideas
  28. #11 - Constrained Creativity
  29. #10 - Learning to Draw
  30. #9 - Sameness of Thought
  31. #8 - The Computer as a Tool
  32. #7 - Progress
  33. #6 - Decline of Tinkering
  34. #5 - Engineering Education System
  35. #4 - Theoretical Models
  36. #3 - Empirical Models
  37. #2 - A Practitioner's Perspective of Engineering
  38. #1 - What I Hope to Accomplish