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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

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After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. I really appreciate Bob's willingness to share his wealth of information. Damn the torpedoes. Here we go.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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Thanks to these communication systems and volunteer centers, it was possible to supply personal protective equipment (like face shields ) for physicians and social workers. 3D Tech ADDtive Other volunteers also joined the modernization and implementation of computer-aided designs with publicly available 3D models for printing.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The system is designed to use cryptography to protect information from being altered or stolen. The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. Riko-chan uses her knowledge of aerodynamics to show her friend how to improve the plane’s design.

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35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

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Atanasovski is dean of the university’s electrical engineering and information technologies school. “It The three researchers used a Movit Line Tracer II robot they built from a kit from Japanese appliance shop Elehobby, now called Elekit. The frequency increases when a person is relaxed and not moving.

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Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere

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In both cases, a person in a studio—the presenter—can appear in full-size, lifelike 3D form and interact with people anywhere in the world where one or more booths are hooked up to the companies' networks via the internet. ARHT Media , based in Toronto, Canada, and PORTL Inc., The feed to get online can be Wi-Fi, 5G or Ethernet.

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VW unveils fully autonomous, electric Microbus I.D. Buzz concept at Detroit; all-wheel drive, 270-mile range

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Buzz is built off the Modular Electric Drive kit (MEB). BUZZ is a next-generation vehicle based on the new Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB), offering comfort and plenty of space. As soon as a person approaches the vehicle, the sensor surfaces for opening the door light up. Like the compact I.D. The overall concept of the I.D.

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