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Our Hands-On Citizen-Scientist

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With a doctorate in geophysics, Schneider has been helping to make the invisible visible for scientists and engineers for almost three decades at Scientific American , American Scientist , and for the last 15 years, IEEE Spectrum. He notes that his exoplanet detector , which he made back in 2014, still impresses him almost a decade on.

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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. 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. The price was $900 which was OK I think? I am presently stuck on batteries?

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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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

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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. To design a controller, you must have a way of testing it, for which biomedical engineering has typically relied on animal trials.

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