About the time estimates on each lab: 7-minute base unit. Numbers reflect depth of commitment —
how heavy the material is + the builder's best guess at how long you'll want to sit with it. If a number feels off
to you, that's useful signal. Email via the About page and the builder will recalibrate.
⚐ Flagship lab — start here
Lester's Lab
pumps, head loss, Clarksville cascade
Water & Hydraulics — flow, head, scour, coastal
OPA 4.10.1
Lester's Lab
pumps, head loss, Clarksville cascade
who'd appreciate this
hydraulic engineers, plumbers, anyone curious how water moves under pressure
·
Horseshoe Vortex
water + piers + scour
who'd appreciate this
bridge designers, hydraulic engineers, anyone wondering what happens at the pier
·
Coastal Wave Tank
coastal engineering
who'd appreciate this
coastal engineers, surfers, anyone who lives where the ocean still gets a vote
OPA 4.10.x · coming
Drinky
drinking-water AI monitoring · Mira Santos canon (Nashville)
who'd appreciate this
water-treatment operators, public-health folks, anyone whose grandfather worked at the city water plant
OPA 4.10.x · coming
Stinky
wastewater AI monitoring · Mira Santos canon (Nashville)
who'd appreciate this
wastewater operators, EPA compliance folks, anyone curious how cities know what's in the pipe
Structures — statics, dynamics, capstone systems
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The Static Beam
Ray Ray Mitmer canon · statics
who'd appreciate this
structural engineers, anyone who built a treehouse and thought about deflection
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The Live Beam
dynamic beam · SDOF · Tacoma + Hyatt + Millennium
who'd appreciate this
structural engineers, anyone who watched a bridge sway and wanted to know why
OPA 4.10.39
The Island
Senior Capstone · Three Budgets · Dr. Lena Okafor
who'd appreciate this
civil engineers, planners, mythology city-builders — anyone balancing a system that has to take care of itself
Structures
The Laminated Beam
glulam · composite action
Structures · CIVL 420
The Moment Frame
seismic · CIVL 420
Traffic · signal timing
The Crossing
traffic · signal timing
Gateway · intro
The Demonstration
gateway · catapult + can
Aero & Acoustics — lift, vortices, sound in rooms
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The Wing
lift, vortices, Wright Brothers
who'd appreciate this
pilots, aero engineers, anyone who looked at a plane and didn't buy the explanation
·
Concert Hall Acoustics
sound, room, listener
who'd appreciate this
acousticians, architects, performers
Acoustics
Acoustic Levitation
standing waves · nodes lift objects
Acoustics
Chladni Plate
nodal lines · drumhead = antenna
Aerospace · SPCE 341
The Break Sequence
fireworks as staged rockets
Aerospace · SPCE 310
The Burn
rockets · Tsiolkovsky
Methodology — templates + verification
·
Lester's Method
curriculum methodology · how-you-teach-this template
who'd appreciate this
curriculum designers, teachers, anyone trying to teach something new from scratch
Methodology · §4.10.42
The Optimizer
constructability bench · the optimum vs. the buildable
Environmental & Climate — the footprint and the heat
OPA 4.10.44
The Energy Clash
TVA footprint · power vs. its cost on one map · Dr. Obodat
who'd appreciate this
environmental engineers, energy-policy folks, anyone who wants the power and the bill on the same coordinate
OPA 4.10.49
The Skin and the Air
urban heat · satellite “skin” temp vs. real air temp · 384 US cities · Cmdr. Thorpe
who'd appreciate this
climate scientists, city planners, public-health folks, anyone who's ever trusted a bright red heat map
Material Science — grain, shape & strength
OPA 4.10.50
The Pinch That Wouldn't Hold
granular strength · grain & angularity · why rubble-pile Bennu was weak · Dan Coner & Dr. Lionel Crew · also College IX
who'd appreciate this
materials engineers, geotechs, planetary scientists, anyone who's packed road base or wondered how an asteroid holds together
Problem-solving · §4.10.43
The Duct Tape Doesn't Care
route around the wall, don't break it
Robotics & Human-Machine — actuators, intention, BMI
Robotics · §4.10.11
The Actuator Lab
the body is the first machine — actuators taking commands from a human
BMI · §4.10.12
BrainlinkedN
the intention door — reading intent and routing it to a cursor, a chair, an arm
Cross-listed in — visiting labs from other colleges
OPA 2.22.1
The Three Gauge Test
verification across three independent gauges · Walters Dam canon
who'd appreciate this
engineers, scientists, anyone who needs to know if a thing is actually working
OPA 4.13.x · Trades
The Wire
infrastructure forensics · "close enough gets you killed"
who'd appreciate this
electricians, infrastructure investigators, anyone who knows the difference between close-enough and dead
OPA 4.18.x · coming
The Jenkins Method
Natural Human Language Programming · how a hydraulic engineer with no AI training built a baseball validation system in 600 hours · the parent doctrine V31 was born under
who'd appreciate this
engineers, methodology nerds, anyone watching V31 and asking how the hell that got built without a CS degree
OPA 4.18.x
The V31 Protocol
eighteen inches at 400 mph — five-gate validation, born under baseball, applied everywhere · Marcus Henderson doctrine + GRIND 1 case study
who'd appreciate this
engineers, methodology nerds, scorekeepers, AI builders, anyone tired of close-enough passing as verified
the building · exploratory
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