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Come One Come All! DMC's Carnival May 29th

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! DMC invites you to join us at our first ever spectacularly spectacular Spring Carnival on Thursday May 29, 2014. Featuring delicious food and deep fried treats, carnival diversions, and cold brews, there will be e...


Geek Challenge: "What's your angle Equilibrium?"

A uniform bar has identical frictionless wheels on each end. The distance between the axle centers is 1m. The bar is suspended by a rope attached to the lower axle and to a fixed point offset from the wall a distance that equals the wheel radius. The...


April Comic

Engineers are known for being serious about their work, but we leave plenty of room for laughs. At DMC, we have a fondness for humor of the geeky variety. 


DMC Quote Board - April 2014

Visitors to DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board," documenting the most infamous utterances of the moment.  


Employee Spotlight: Han Yang

Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. In this video, Han shares her favorite Chicago hot spots as well as the most rewarding part of her job as a Sy...


Shamrock Shuffle 2014 Meets the DMC Competition

At DMC, an opportunity for a healthy dose of competition never goes untapped. Our annual participation in the Shamrock Shuffle 8k is always a good excuse to get our competitive muscles burning (and our real muscles too). DMC employees have been runni...


Beckhoff Automation and Programming Demo at DMC

Beckhoff visited the DMC Chicago office not long ago in order to demo some cool automation equipment. Many of us are already familiar with Beckhoff’s products, but it was really valuable to be able to take a step back from working with the equi...


Solutions For Common Problems in Outlook 2013

In my experience, the most widespread issues that occur for both DMC users and our external customers, happen while using Microsoft Outlook. This is partially due to the fact that Outlook is quite possibly, the most important application and definite...


Abstracting an ORM to Use Multiple Backends

Object-relational mappings (ORMs) took the world by storm in the mid-aughts. Obviously there are many advantages to ORMs given their success, but there are some drawbacks. I'll explain one particular hurdle that I ran into as well as the steps I ...


Entering the World of 3D Printing

A few years ago, DMC entered the world of 3D printing by building a Thing-O-Matic. This printer was... special in that it contained a lot of questionable design decisions, but it allowed us to do something amazing. We could create 3 dimensional objec...


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