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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it.

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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. In 2018, the Nexø II rocket launched successfully [left] and returned safely to the Baltic Sea [right]. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. Spica rocket.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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Author’s Note and Trigger Warning: The succeeding sections of this article contains links to footage and other online references that may cause distress to readers. Since 2018, there have been over 45,000 collisions with stationary roadside objects. A DIY Solution. The Flaws of HumanPilot. Discretion is advised.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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2018 meta-analysis of 40 studies, totaling 1,027 participants, found that patients stayed within their blood-glucose target range (70–180 mg/dL) about 15 percent more of the time while asleep and nearly 10 percent more overall, as compared to patients receiving standard treatment. Then there are the many, many DIY projects underway.

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