Bizarre Engineering Decisions

Case Studies

Most Bizarrely Overengineered Case Studies

Case Study 1: The Mysterious Case of the Infinite Coffee Machine

A case study about a team of engineers trying to create a coffee machine that could brew coffee faster than it could be consumed.

Case Study 2: The Great Wall of Refrigerator Doors

A case study about the design and implementation of a system that required 17 different refrigerator doors in order to reach the optimal temperature.

Case Study 3: The Incredibly Complex Toaster Network

A case study about a team of engineers who tried to create a toaster that could toast up to 500 slices of bread simultaneously using a distributed network of toaster nodes.