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Meet Richard Williams a.k.a. Corporal Willy III – From Ideas To Creation
“Simple things seem to derive the most pleasure from everyone” – Corporal Willy The very first time we tried doing a 3D carving, we took just two pieces of scrap wood and glued them together. I looked for two
... ContinuedMeet Richard Williams a.k.a. Corporal Willy II – Some Projects
Richard first came up with the idea of constructing a bridge using fettuccine pasta, while pushing a shopping cart alongside his wife, Carmy, at a supermarket. As Carla stopped in the aisle stacked with a variety of pastas, Richard carefully observed the different
... ContinuedMeet Richard Williams a.k.a. Corporal Willy I – Where It All Started
We know him as Corporal Willy – Richard Williams, who is an engineer by passion and has dedicated his life to teaching in STEM education. From creating a bridge with fettuccine pasta and Elmer’s Wood Glue, to building a 9.25
... ContinuedBig Bridge Project Makes a Difference in STEM Education
The Big Bridge. If you are creating a freshman engineering experience or a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) lesson with brainstorming, designing, testing, redesigning, hands-on building and ofcourse making certain students and instructors have fun, then the Big Bridge could be
... ContinuedA Project that Teaches
Over my many years in construction I have seen some really great engineering and some things that were not so great. So I decided to try my hand at a project for my school district and by some miracle it worked. It
... ContinuedNew World Record Set
Declaration of World Record Set World Record Set on February 25th 2012 by Corporal Willy aka Richard Williams To all the readers of the SolidWorks Teachers Web Site and the world at large, I do solemnly swear and affirm
... ContinuedTruth or Fiction
I would like to take a logical guess that everyone out there reading this post would agree that we have all been fooled by emails that we have gotten at times. They were either out right lies, fakes or completely
... ContinuedDoing things Different by Breaking the Mold
HSMWorks Breaks the Mold. By Richard Williams aka Corporal Willy December 2nd 2011 Really good things don’t happen all that often these days but today the news came out that I want everyone to know about especially those
... ContinuedCardboard or Fiberboard in our Schools
Cardboard Construction Destructive Testing
By Corporal Willy, February 23rd 2010
One of the volunteer jobs that I do while being retired is to write for https://www.engineering.com My articles report on the various items I find that might be interesting to technologists, engineers, scientists and physicists worldwide. These articles should also be of interest to teachers all over the world, because I do include science projects now and then that can be used for classroom projects and school science events. Today I started a special project in our schools in Las Vegas and hopefully it will be adopted everywhere in the world. The use of cardboard or fiberboard as it is sometimes called can be used to build small construction projects and then used in “destructive testing.”
Digital Creations Not Normally Done in SW.
Diamond in the Raw By Richard Williams Jan, 18th 2011. Unlike the title would indicate to many of you, a diamond in the raw would have been a lot easier to do with bad eyesight than a finished cut
... ContinuedAREA-51 Released From CIA SECRET SILENCE
This Article I just wrote will be of interest to many I'm sure, because it talks about current events, science and all the other disciplines that were needed to help bring about WORLD PEACE back in the COLD WAR Days. So when a
... ContinuedClass Projects with Cheap Materials.
This year I might also be in the classroom along with a licensed teacher in a test project that will bring in volunteers with their own areas of expertise, to teach in certain schools. This is not being tried out to replace any of
... ContinuedWill Surveying be Important on the Moon or Mars?
"Where there is a will there is a way" "Where there is a need there is invention" SolidWorks helped me to devise a device that would help me to calculate the sun's arc across the sky in my backyard.
... ContinuedThe Melding of the Entertainment Industry with Engineering
Hi everybody. Here in our school district we do everything we can do to unite what our young furture engineers are learning in their classrooms, to how it is being used out in the real world. It stimulates a much higher
... ContinuedGears and Informational Resouces for them
Robotics and Gears By Richard Williams, 5/28/09 It has been awhile since I last submitted something to this distinguished membership and web site, but needless to say there aren’t enough hours in each day. I was recently sent some
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