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First steps

DIY Electric Car

It's a 2002 Saturn SL1 with 220,000 miles and a rough engine, however it still runs. In the end I went with what was available and what I could afford. confused: However I think getting the engine out of the old car and fixing the motor is going to be challenge enough to start with. I have bought my donor car.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

One of the first people I met at the club was Bob Allen, an electronics engineer who had a machine shop in his garage and could make amazing mechanical things. Back then, my mechanical engineering skills were severely lacking. Back then, my mechanical engineering skills were severely lacking. It couldn’t be that hard, right?

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

Cars That Think

Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. He passed away from diabetes-related complications in 2002. Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available.

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