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Brainstorm 15-20 ways to remove balloons from a room
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0
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3237
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October 26, 2022
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There are three buckets with water, air, and gasoline. If you put a sensor in the buckets, what type of sensing technology would you use to tell them apart?
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1
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2286
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November 29, 2021
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How would you characterize the pressure drop across the length of a heatsink
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1
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2276
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September 14, 2025
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How do you choose the number of layers in a PCB?
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1
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2269
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July 11, 2023
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What is a PID Controller?
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1
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2247
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September 7, 2020
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Landing Interviews at Top Tech Companies (Apple, Tesla, SpaceX, etc.)
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1
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2216
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November 18, 2023
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When you use the front brakes on your bicycle, why does your body want to rotate over the front wheel?
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1
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2200
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January 13, 2021
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What is the difference between analog vs. digital signals? Is there a preference of when to choose each signal type?
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1
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2095
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February 16, 2022
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iPhone Home Button: How would you design the mechanism of the home button?
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0
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2884
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April 17, 2022
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What sensors are used in an Xbox Kinect? Explain how these sensors work and why are they are used
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1
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2034
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October 3, 2020
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Basics of Metal Casting
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1
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2015
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September 6, 2020
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Defining Your Sample Size
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1
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2009
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December 4, 2023
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How would you measure repeatability of an arm that needs to swing exactly 180 degrees (with a sensor mounted on the end?)
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1
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1987
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April 26, 2023
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A machine includes a bronze cart sliding horizontally on steel rails. The design is changed to add a 15° angle to the rails and cart without changing any other features. How does the sliding friction of the two designs compare?
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2
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1608
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September 23, 2025
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FIR vs IIR filter
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1
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1914
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July 11, 2023
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Grades of Steel/Aluminum
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1
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1914
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August 3, 2021
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How do basic analog components like diodes and capacitors work?
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1
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1886
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May 9, 2022
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Garden hose has stopped flow. There is constant static pressure and no water hammer. Why does hose have tear in axial direction at the end of the hose?
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1
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1854
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May 6, 2021
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Can you describe a voltage divider and how it works?
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1
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1835
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March 7, 2022
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Welcome to Hardware FYI
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1
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1824
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January 31, 2023
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Startup Interview Question: Ensuring Part Flatness
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2
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1479
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February 14, 2025
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Advice for Design Challenges and Teardowns?
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2
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1467
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March 25, 2022
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Statistics for Manufacturing
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1
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1777
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November 20, 2023
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If you're on a spaceship and want to throw out garbage outside such that it will propel you outwards, which direction do you throw the garbage?
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1
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1744
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July 31, 2021
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What are considerations for designing an injection molded part, like on the back-paneling of a consumer product?
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1
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1716
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June 14, 2024
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If two vehicles are identical, why does the one with higher power have wider tires?
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1
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1630
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February 14, 2025
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Glued/Non-glued cantilever beam
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1
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1568
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September 9, 2024
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What are important criteria for selecting microcontrollers?
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1
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1553
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May 24, 2022
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Additive Manufacturing Techniques
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1
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1550
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November 14, 2023
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When does a motor or solenoid maximize and minimize power?
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1
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1529
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May 18, 2024
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What techniques are used to mitigate rotational vibration on a hard disk?
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0
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2133
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August 8, 2020
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What's the difference between a ramjet and scramjet?
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0
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2021
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February 9, 2024
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Privacy Policy
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0
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1949
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July 26, 2020
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Subtractive Manufacturing Techniques
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1
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1375
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November 17, 2023
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What are ways to regulate current & voltage, and why is this needed in certain circuits?
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1
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1337
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May 23, 2024
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What are pull-up & pull-down resistors & important criteria for specification?
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1
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1328
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May 18, 2024
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What is the value of the output voltage in a passive low pass RC filter?
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1
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1324
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April 20, 2024
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How would you design a heat shield for a spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere?
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0
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1852
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January 3, 2024
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A steel cantilevered I-beam is welded to a wall has some load applied at the end. Where would it fail?
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0
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1850
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August 30, 2024
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If you only use you hot tub during the weekend, is it more efficient to leave it on all the time or turn it on only for the weekend?
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0
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1831
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October 3, 2020
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How would you measure air pressure of an airplane?
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0
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1821
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October 3, 2020
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What are the following GD&T symbols, and what tolerance & surface does it control?
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0
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1760
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August 2, 2023
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Explain the types of tests you would conduct on an Oculus Rift
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0
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1749
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September 2, 2020
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Describe the failure theories for brittle and ductile materials
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0
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1711
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August 10, 2021
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Merge two sorted linked lists
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1
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1179
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July 11, 2023
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What is the takeoff distance for a given aircraft?
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0
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1652
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January 21, 2024
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Parallel-in, Serial-out Shift Register
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1
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1161
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July 11, 2023
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Merge overlapping intervals
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1
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1150
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July 11, 2023
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For a screwed connection, what condition will the bolt experience no shear load?
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0
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1583
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August 2, 2023
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Truss Loading: Force Calculation & Displacement
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0
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1578
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December 11, 2023
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