Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists

For young engineers and scientists that want to get their hands dirty (or don&#x27;t have a laptop or don&#x27;t want to do science on a laptop) there&#x27;s the tried and true book-variety of science experiments.<p>Loved (still love) this classic put together by UNESCO: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;isbn_9780385052757" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;isbn_9780385052757</a>

I see a bit of measurement, but nothing that looks like an experiment; e.g.: observe, think, predict, test, iterate.<p>Need to dig out the link, but there&#x27;s a video of a British biologist from a few years ago, talking about how today&#x27;s university students are completely unable to do any actual science.<p>All they know how to do is reference &quot;peer-reviewed&quot; (meaning total nonsense) papers to &quot;prove&quot; things.

I have the previous version &quot;expeyes junior&quot;. Specs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;expeyes.in&#x2F;compare.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;expeyes.in&#x2F;compare.html</a><p>Good tool, not the best nor most polished but quite versatile. The UI, Documentation can all be better but for any Tinkerer, good enough.

These well meaning sort of things are nice but completely miss the point.<p>Were you pushed, coerced, encouraged, fancied a go, bloody minded or all of the above. There is the concept of the &quot;self starter&quot; - someone who simply does exactly what you think they should. There&#x27;s the bloody minded ones who simply don&#x27;t conform.<p>People are people. No more and no less. Children can be guided and sometimes you get it right. My uncle made a suggestion 35 odd years ago about me looking into Civil Engineering and I ended up running an IT company for the last 22 years.<p>What got <i>you</i> into STEM&#x2F;Engineering&#x2F;IT&#x2F;whatevs?