Engineering workbench / 70 working instruments

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Free calculators, generators, and guided workbenches for engineers. Search a tool or choose a category to get started.

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Gradify: GPA & Graduation Planner

Calculate university GPA, plan a target, and explore grading scales. Includes Delta engineering transcript import, prerequisite checks, semester planning, and PDF reports.

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AI Script Generator

A guided, step-by-step builder that generates a complete, runnable Python training project - not a snippet - for YOLO detection, sensor time-series, and edge image classification.

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Security Mission

Build, validate, and learn security-tool commands for authorized labs - 22/22 eCPPT objectives covered, with safe shell quoting and secret redaction built in.

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Interactive PID Simulator

Tune proportional, integral, and derivative gains with a live physics loop to visualize system response.

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Sensor Code Generator

Generate Arduino, ESP-IDF, and PlatformIO boilerplate for common sensors to jumpstart hardware bring-up.

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ESP32 Battery Life & Power Estimator

Calculate ESP32 battery life from sleep and active duty cycles. Estimates total runtime and average current draw.

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Ohm's Law Calculator

Find voltage, current, or resistance from the other two - the one relationship every circuit obeys.

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Voltage Divider Calculator

Two resistors in series split a voltage in proportion to their size - the trick behind most sensor circuits.

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RC Time Constant Calculator

How fast a resistor and capacitor charge or discharge together, boiled down to one number: tau.

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Capacitive Reactance Calculator

See how much a capacitor resists AC current at a given frequency - resistance's frequency-dependent cousin.

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LED Series Resistor Calculator

The one calculation every LED circuit needs, so the LED lights up instead of burning out.

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Battery Life Calculator

Estimate how many hours a battery will actually power a project once real-world efficiency is factored in.

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RMS Voltage Calculator

Convert an AC signal's peak voltage into the steady DC-equivalent value that actually does the work.

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Resistor Color Code Calculator

Turn four color bands into an exact resistance and tolerance, with a picker instead of a chart to squint at.

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5-Band Resistor Color Code Calculator

The same idea with one more digit of precision - for the tighter-tolerance resistors that use five bands.

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Series Resistor Calculator

Add resistors end to end and their resistances just add up. Enter a few values, get the total.

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Parallel Resistor Calculator

Wire resistors side by side and the math flips - flip each value, add them, flip the sum back.

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555 Timer Astable Circuit Calculator

Set two resistors and a capacitor to tune a free-running 555 timer's frequency and duty cycle.

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555 Timer Monostable Circuit Calculator

One trigger, one pulse - work out exactly how long a 555 timer's one-shot output stays high.

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High Pass Filter Calculator

Find the cutoff frequency of an RC filter that lets highs through and blocks the lows.

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Low Pass Filter Calculator

The same RC pair, wired the other way round - keep the lows, roll off everything above the cutoff.

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Op-Amp Gain Calculator

Two resistors decide how much an op-amp amplifies a signal - and whether it flips polarity on the way.

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Air-Core Coil Designer

Estimate a single-layer coil from its dimensions, inspect the winding, and check whether the turns fit.

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LC Resonance Designer

Choose a target frequency and capacitor to size an ideal LC tank, with a winding-loss Q estimate.

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Band-Pass Filter Designer

Design a buffered RC band-pass circuit and compare stage corners with the complete frequency response.

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Cascaded Op-Amp Gain Designer

Build an inverting or non-inverting multi-stage amplifier, see total gain, and compare common op-amp ICs.

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Control Design Assistant

Describe the state you need and get a flip-flop, register, counter, or shift-register recommendation with a live state table.

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Logic Gate Designer

Set ON/OFF conditions and generate an interactive logic-gate network alongside its complete truth table.

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SMPS Design

Explore AC-mains and DC-input isolated flyback supplies, calculate a first-pass DCM operating point, and follow energy through an interactive circuit.

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Full-Wave Bridge Rectifier Designer

Estimate rectified DC voltage, ripple frequency, reservoir capacitance, and diode stress for a low-voltage supply.

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Linear Regulator Stability Designer

Estimate heat, efficiency and voltage headroom; document capacitor and ESR requirements without a false stability verdict.

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Buck Converter Designer

Estimate duty cycle, inductor, output capacitor, ripple current, peak current, and estimated total power loss.

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ASCII to HEX Converter

See the raw hex bytes your text actually turns into once a computer gets hold of it.

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HEX to ASCII Converter

Turn a string of hex byte values back into the readable text it was encoding.

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ROT Explorer

Encode, decode, compare all shifts, and see every letter move through a live alphabet map.

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Vigenère & Autokey Cipher

Encode and decode with a repeating Vigenère key or a self-extending Autokey stream, and watch the key stream build letter by letter.

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Additive, Multiplicative & Affine Cipher

Encode and decode with a Caesar-style additive shift, a multiplicative cipher, or the combined affine cipher, with the modular-inverse math shown.

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Rail Fence & Transposition Cipher

Encode and decode with a zigzag rail fence, a keyword-ordered row transposition, or a keyless columnar transposition, with the grid shown letter by letter.

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Playfair Cipher

Build the 5x5 key square from a keyword, split text into digraphs, and encode or decode with the row, column, and rectangle rules shown.

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Hill Cipher

Encode and decode with a 2x2 or 3x3 key matrix, multiplying letter blocks mod 26 and inverting the matrix to decode.

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MD5 & SHA Hash Generator

Generate MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 hashes from text, computed entirely in your browser.

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AES Hex Calculator

Encrypt and decrypt hex data with a 128, 192, or 256-bit AES key in ECB mode, with every SubBytes, ShiftRows, MixColumns, and AddRoundKey step shown.

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Capacitor Code-Value Converter

Decode the three-digit number printed on a small ceramic capacitor into a real, usable capacitance.

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Capacitance Conversion

Move between farads, microfarads, nanofarads, and picofarads without losing track of the decimal point.

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Temperature Conversion

Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin - three scales for the same thing, converted both ways at once.

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Decimal, Binary, Octal and Hex Converter

Type a number in any base and read it back in all four at once - decimal, binary, octal, and hex.

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Binary Bit Shift Calculator

Slide a binary number's bits left or right and see exactly how that multiplies or divides it by two.

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One's Complement Calculator

Flip every bit in a binary number - the building block behind how computers represent negative numbers.

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Two's Complement Calculator

The actual system computers use to store negative numbers in binary, one bit-flip past one's complement.

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Log Base 2 Calculator

Find out how many times a number has to double to reach another - the question log base 2 answers.

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Binary Calculator

Add, subtract, multiply, or divide two binary numbers directly, without converting to decimal first.

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Hex Calculator

The same arithmetic, base 16 - handy for anyone reading memory addresses or register values all day.

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Acceleration Calculator

Work out how quickly something is speeding up or slowing down from its change in velocity over time.

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Force, Mass & Acceleration Calculator

Newton's second law, solved for whichever of force, mass, or acceleration you don't already know.

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Speed Distance Time Calculator

The classic travel formula, rearranged to solve for whichever of the three you're missing.

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Wavelength Calculator

Find the physical length of one wave cycle from its speed and frequency - light, sound, or radio.

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Frequency-to-Period Calculator

Frequency and period are just each other's reciprocal - flip one to get the other, either direction.

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Percentage Change Calculator

See exactly how much something grew or shrank, expressed the way everyone actually talks about it.

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Square Root Calculator

The number that multiplies by itself to give you the one you started with.

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Cube Root Calculator

Same idea as a square root, one dimension further - the number that multiplies by itself three times.

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Orbit & Kepler Calculator

Connect altitude, orbital shape, speed, period and Earth coverage.

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GEO Look Angle Calculator

Point an earth-station antenna using azimuth, elevation and slant range.

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Satellite Power and Lifetime Calculator

Size beginning-of-life power for degradation and eclipse requirements.

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Doppler and Propagation Delay Tool

Separate carrier frequency shift from geometric signal flight time.

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Satellite Link Budget Calculator

Combine uplink, downlink and digital performance requirements.

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RF Band & Carrier Planner

Compare microwave bands, services, wavelength and weather sensitivity.

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Antenna Gain & Aperture Calculator

Relate dish size, aperture efficiency, gain and pointing tolerance.

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RF Path, PFD and Received Power Calculator

Follow transmitted power through spreading and receive aperture.

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Noise, Noise Figure and G/T Calculator

Refer noise to an input plane and evaluate receiver sensitivity.

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Multiple Access, SCPC and TDMA Planner

Allocate limited satellite spectrum, time and transmit power.