{"id":514,"date":"2007-02-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/fundamentals_of"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T11:13:18","slug":"fundamentals_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2007\/02\/fundamentals_of.html","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentals of Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, &#039;_blank&#039;, &#039;width=250,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/alexslocum_111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/alexslocum_11.jpg\" title=\"Alexslocum_1\" alt=\"Alexslocum_1\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n MIT Professor Alex Slocum&#8217;s book is about helping people to learn how to create their own future! It does this by taking advantage of the fact that the reader&#8217;s LEFT brain sees the LEFT side (fun) of the book. The RIGHT brain sees the (mental) side of the book. Its simply FUNdaMental! This in itself is a key feature of this book: It seeks to train the brain to think by many a link. Creating things is NOT done by following a monotonous recipe&#8230;The ability to create can be learned by anyone who as a yearn to learn! But the eye must be quick to sort and pick! Embedded inside, many a hidden creative message may reside!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9933;\"><strong>eBook: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">To check out Alex Slocum&#8217;s book go to <\/span><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pergatory.mit.edu\/2.007\">https:\/\/pergatory.mit.edu\/2.007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Professor Alex Slocum&#8217;s book is about helping people to learn how to create their own future! It does this by taking advantage of the fact that the reader&#8217;s LEFT brain sees the LEFT side (fun) of the book. The<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2007\/02\/fundamentals_of.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015,5219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}