Rimakulkarni·Jun 8A satellite 550km above you just loaded this pageHow Starlink beams internet from space to your rooftop dish — and why it is one of the most complex hardware-software systems ever built
Rimakulkarni·May 24Your headphones heard the noise before you did — and killed itThe surprisingly clever story of how noise-cancelling headphones work — and why it is one of the best examples of hardware and software…
Rimakulkarni·May 17The flight that vanished — and the orange box that solved the mystery228 people. A missing plane. Two years of searching. And two small orange boxes sitting 4,000 meters underwater that changed aviation…
Rimakulkarni·May 1Everything burned. The black box didn’t.How a small orange box — yes, it’s actually orange — survives crashes that tear apart entire planes, and why that matters for all of us
Rimakulkarni·Apr 20Your EV said 300km. You got 210km. Nobody lied — here’s what actually happenedWhy your electric car’s range estimate is more of a weather forecast than a fuel gauge
Rimakulkarni·Apr 12The Software Update That Could Not FailHow NASA patched a Mars rover mid-mission — and what every engineer can learn from it
Rimakulkarni·Apr 11When the Software Lies and the Hardware ObeysWhat the Boeing 737 MAX crisis teaches us about the cost of misaligned engineering
