--> Why do we even build machines?
--> Where should we look for problems?
--> How can us solve a problem?
--> The engineer mentality
--> Examples of engineering marbles
--> Share your idea

You are learning engineering for a reason.

Even if you don't understand it yet, you are a problem solver, and the world pays you to solve their problems.

Most of the times the solution to a problem is a machine, or a robot.
You can charge great price for these.

This is easy, look at people who moan all day. Look at females (all they do is moan about everything). Look in industries. Agriculture, Garbage collecting, Manufacturing, Skincare, Fast Food, etc. There is always a problem that needs to be solved.

For example:

• Some man's woman talked all day, so he invented the ear plugs
  ("But actually he invented it so machine noise won't hurt his ears" - Shut up, see the big picture and not the liberal lies.)


• Someone looked in the fields. All the slaves ware sad, because picking potatoes is hard,
  so he thought and invented the potato picker machine, that can be tracked by a tractor.

Every invention on this planet, was made so it solves a problem. And the inventors most of the time got fucking rich, we talking millions and billions of dollars!

So you found a problem,

for example "The Jews are rigging the elections" and can't think of a way to solve it?

Well fuck man, this problem is for real kinda unsolvable,
but if i think right there was an Austrian painter who had a solution.

Let's be realistic. Choose a problem that is on your level.
For example, you see how your mother struggles peeling potatoes by hand,
so you sit down and start thinking, how can i make a machine which peels the potatoes for her
in less time and less effort than she does.

If you have a problem, and have ideas, but the whole picture seems impossible
you must brake it down to small accomplishable steps.

For example our potato peeling machine:

• What shall the mouth of the piece look like?
• Plastic or Metal?
• Dimensions (height, width)
• 3D print or forged?
• Build it in a 3D program first
• How would it peel the potatoes?
• Something moves inside?
• Are the potatoes pushed against some blades?
• Are they spinning?
• Did the chineese built something like this before?
• Can i implement their patent?
• Would it wash the potatoes as well?
• How can i add a cleaning mechanism
• Shall the machine be self cleaning too?
• How to change the water inside?
• Shall it be mechanic or electric?
• Shall it have a display?
• A display from AliExpress is good enough?
• How to adopt 220V AC to DC
• How do the potatoes come out of it?
• Can i put a bowl under it?
• How big will the machine be?
• Shall it slice the potatoes too?
• Adding a pushing mechanism?
• Adding blades?

As you can see, this is the way to solve every big problem, brake them down into smaller solvable problems.

The Wheel
The Printing Press
Electricity
The Internet
The Telephone
The Light Bulb
Penicillin
The Computer
The Airplane
Vaccination
The Steam Engine
The Internal Combustion Engine
The Automobile
Refrigeration
The Sewing Machine
The Radio
The Camera
The Microwave Oven
The Personal Computer
The Smartphone
Solar Panels
The Satellite
The Bicycle
GPS (Global Positioning System)
The Telescope
The Microscope
The Elevator
The Washing Machine
The Dishwasher
The Internet of Things (IoT)
The Printing Press
Eyeglasses
The Stethoscope
The Anesthesia
The X-ray Machine
The Thermometer
The Pacemaker
The Insulin Pump
The Hearing Aid
The Defibrillator
Antibiotics
The Artificial Heart
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
CT Scan
Laser Surgery
The Electric Motor
The Battery
The Light-emitting Diode (LED)
Nuclear Power
Hydroelectric Power