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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We believe that spaceflight should be available to anyone who's willing to put in the time and effort. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. We're now building the.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The availability of high current charging power is not important. But besides that, the only electronics potentially benefiting from THIS breakthrough are RCs and household rechargeable batteries. 6 Puppyjump said on March 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 am I don’t need fast charging. About 15 amps from a 110v outlet is adequate.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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Robot-suitable mechanical parts were hard to come by, but combat robot parts were more readily available due to their popularity on TV at the time. At this point it was 2008, and AMPbot was scheduled for release in early 2009, but that was not to be. Back then, my mechanical engineering skills were severely lacking.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.) Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available. Our model described the interaction over time of glucose and insulin by means of differential equations representing the best available estimates of human physiology. In January 2008, the U.S. Beta Bionics. Diabeloop.

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