The job of an engineer hasn’t changed in the 90 years since Machine Design first published. The role is still to improve the performance and lower the cost of problem-solving devices, as well as the ...

Arduino enthusiasts that are looking for a new creative project to build, might take inspiration from a new electromechanical drawing machine that has been built, which is powered by music and has ...

Inspired by the Martin Scorsese film Hugo, an obsessive Lego enthusiast built a programmable machine that writes messages and draws pictures. All you have to do is turn a crank. Andrew Carol, who ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...

• Some of the toughest challenges in an engineering project are organizational rather than technical. • The process of selling your ideas to other departments can be as important as having sound ...