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Our Hands-On Citizen-Scientist

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As he prepares to leave Spectrum to pursue more writing and assorted other projects, I asked Schneider to survey his DIY oeuvre and choose some highlights. He notes that his exoplanet detector , which he made back in 2014, still impresses him almost a decade on.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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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. B oth founders left the organization in 2014, but by then the project had about 50 volunteers and plenty of momentum. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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National Institutes of Health launched a research initiative; and from 2010 to 2014, the European Union–funded AP@Home consortium was active. Then there are the many, many DIY projects underway. This article appears in the December 2021 print issue as "Creating the Artificial Pancreas.". and across Europe; in 2008 the U.S.

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