Python and Matplotlib can be used to create static 2D plots. But it Matplotlib can also be used to create dynamic auto-updating animated plots. In this post, you learn how to create a live auto-updating animated plot using Python and Matplotlib.

In this post, we will complete a problem that might come up in an introductory Materials Science and Engineering class. We'll calculate the number of vacancy defects in a material using Python.

Offset piston motion is one of the classic types of engineering dynamics motion that belong to a category of 4-bar motion. Piston motion is the type of motion that the piston in a cylinder of a car engine goes through as the crankshaft rotates.

Offset piston motion has the same …

In this post, I am going to describe my PC build. This is the computer that I use for a lot of programming work as well as some live streams. The computer I built runs Linux (Ubuntu 20.04).

In this post, you'll see how to install pytesseract. You can use pytesseract to convert images into text. Pytesseract is a Python package that works with tesseract, which is a command-line optical character recognition (OCR) program. It's a super cool package that can read the text contained in pictures. Let's …