Category Archives: General Nerdings

I’ve started using Eclipse for a lot of my programming needs these days, at home and at work, but it requires a bit of additional setup to make it a nice alternative to MATLAB. Most of these steps are unnecessary … Continue reading →

Fooling around in the Python(x,y) documentation a little bit, I found some cool GUI tools I thought would be worth looking into, and I discovered that I my initial judgements of the Eclipse IDE were a bit un-founded and unnecessarily … Continue reading →

For a class project, we each need to individually design and build small plane. It can be hard to find a lot of good data for airfoils at low Reynolds numbers, but thanks to the good folks at UIUC, there … Continue reading →

To teach myself how to use Python instead of MATLAB, I could think of no better way than to dig up one of my old MATLAB homework assignments and do the whole thing in Python. My way of coding things … Continue reading →

Like most mechanical engineering students I know, I have a love-hate relationship with MATLAB. Most of the time, it’s great, but it is not free and running it through a network (like BYU does on all of its computers) can … Continue reading →