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DEED advertising pays off

Electric Auto Association

The members of EAA San Joaquin Valley (EAASJV), largely held back from holding in-person events since the chapter’s founding in 2019 due to the pandemic, were determined to make their 2022 Drive Electric Earth Day event a rousing success. Dave Atherton answering questions from Toyota representatives about his DIY modified 2008 Prius.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

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. Copenhagen Suborbitals was founded in 2008 by a self-taught engineer and a space architect who had previously worked for NASA. 2019 test of the ballute. But we know our.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. Higher education is free in Norway, but the global job market in 2010 was still in the doldrums following the 2008 financial crisis. Toward the end of her studies in 2019, she got her big break. she says. “So

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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In January 2008, the U.S. Only three months later, in April of 2008, we began using the controller we'd designed and tested in silico in real people with type 1 diabetes. and across Europe; in 2008 the U.S. published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 2019. percent to 1.4 Beta Bionics.

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