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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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But motor skills isn't being able to work on motors. Well you need good moor skills to work on motors. ;)
It's physical mechanical thinking that I'm mainly interested in, not the ability to connect object X to Y in a motor skillfully with tools. I find that 'mechanical thinking' (the ability to mentally visualize how devices like the internals of motors move in relation to linked parts) easily translates to control system electronics and programming if you understand the electrical force and program object data relationships in systems in terms of mechanical forces, movements and time. Most classical mechanical force relationships have almost exact electrical analogies when you look at the electrical energy movement in electronic devices even at the micro scale so I'm looking for the type of brain that can tell from one particular tick in a valve train what's likely wrong in that engine.

Once we get that person we can teach/guide them how to be creative in a job but still maintain a logical, mechanical basis for that creativity.
 
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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It's physical mechanical thinking that I'm mainly interested in, not the ability to connect object X to Y in a motor skillfully with tools. I find that 'mechanical thinking' (the ability to mentally visualize how devices like the internals of motors move in relation to linked parts) easily translates to control system electronics and programming if you understand the electrical force and program object data relationships in systems in terms of mechanical forces, movements and time. Most classical mechanical force relationships have almost exact electrical analogies when you look at the electrical energy movement in electronic devices even at the micro scale so I'm looking for the type of brain that can tell from one particular tick in a valve train what's likely wrong in that engine.

Once we get that person we can teach/guide them how to be creative in a job but still maintain a logical, mechanical basis for that creativity.
Funny... what you've described is exactly the work I do. I design custom mechanisms, along with their corresponding controllers, interfaces and necessary software. Plus I have to personally assemble and calibrate everything myself.
 

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Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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That is one of the reasons I encouraged my Sons interest in Combat robotics, I miss Battlebots and robot Wars.
 

atferrari

Joined Jan 6, 2004
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With no real or good isolation for low/ high temperatures I would not even think of using them.

Spent way too many hours in hot weather stuffing containers.

They look appealing but no, thanks.
 

atferrari

Joined Jan 6, 2004
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Maybe I am predisposed but the few office rooms (mostly in USA) built in containers I met, had too strong air conditioners but you could feel the heat coming from the ceiling. I am not the best one to judge.

Besides that, not sure about final costs.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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A friend of mine sent me this, some of you may have read it before, here goes anyway...
And yet the list is missing the one heteronym that most people would probably come up with first: If you *read* a lot, you will become well *read*.

EDIT: Corrected the term used: heterograph -> heteronym. Thanks to spinnaker for pointing it out.
 
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spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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And yet the list is missing the one heterograph that most people would probably come up with first: If you *read* a lot, you will become well *read*.

Read is a hetronym. A hetrogrpahs are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently Their and there, to, to and two ( a triple) your and you're (sort of).
 
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WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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Read is a hetronym. A hetrogrpahs are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently Their and there, to, to and two ( a triple) your and you're (sort of).
You're right -- I didn't look back at the article to confirm I was using the correct word (and the words make sense, I just didn't think about it closely enough). Although I'm pretty sure that it's "hetero..." and not "hetro...".
 
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