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This DIY electric parade float chassis could be any vehicle you want it to be

Electrek

It seems like every new electric vehicle unveiling now starts with showing off a new ‘skateboard’ design , or the chassis of the vehicle that houses everything it needs to make it run. The engineer in me always thought it’d be fun to have just the bare skateboard, meaning you could go wild with your ideas of what to put on top.

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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. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

Cars That Think

A Columbia Engineering team announced today they have created a robot that—for the first time—is able to learn a model of its entire body from scratch, without any human assistance. The robot is designed to carry its own magnet, which it alternately retracts and repels. Petoi ] Thanks, Rongzhong! CHAP ] This video is.strange.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around the world, with one of the most common secondary uses being watertight storage units. That seemed like a great idea to put to use for all of my electric “toys”. To be fair, I cheated a bit. Next came the air conditioning.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didn’t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.”. 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.

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Top 7 Best, Classy and Fastest Electric Cars In Today?s World

DIY Electric Car

However, modern engineering has been able to change this notion by introducing the fastest electric cars. For instance, you have battery life and even ugly designs of the past. The fastest electric cars proved just what modern engineering can bring to the table. Why make electric cars? Chevy Volt. Front View. Renovo Coupe.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. The architects and engineers on the Tahoe project heard me complaining over and over about how insane it was. So I let the idea catch me. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade.

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