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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. They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. Back then, my mechanical engineering skills were severely lacking.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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A normally functioning pancreas recognizes the incoming sugar rush and secretes insulin to allow the body's cells to absorb it so that it can be used as energy or stored for such use later on. Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available. In January 2008, the U.S.

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