Remove 2016 Remove Building Remove DIY Remove Engine
article thumbnail

From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

Today she works as a hardware engineer at Zaptec , which makes electric-vehicle charging stations and is also based in Stavanger. A specialist at heart Growing up in Šiauliai, Lithuania, Bekerytė seemed destined to become an engineer. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing.

Clean 96
article thumbnail

Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. The engine mixed ethanol and liquid oxygen together to produce a thrust of 5 kilonewtons, and the rocket soared to a height of 6,500 meters. We're now building the. generous donors around the world.

DIY 138
article thumbnail

The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

The company assigned the job to Sasson in 1974, when he joined Kodak as an electronics engineer working in the apparatus division’s research lab. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time.

Store 102
article thumbnail

Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade.

Tahoe 93
article thumbnail

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. In 1979, the basis for solving this problem was introduced by the biomedical engineers Richard Bergman and Claudio Cobelli , who described the human metabolic system as a series of equations.

Personal 144