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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

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GITAI will demonstrate the capabilities of its autonomous robot outside the International Space Station Bishop airlock in 2023, including thermal blanket manipulation and component installation. Central to McDermott’s work, is the idea that absurdity and play can be useful ways to reframe our relationships to technology and productivity.

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Show Off Your Car At the Exploratorium in San Francisco

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Hello DIY'ers, The Exploratorium in the San Francisco is looking for someone who'd like to show off their DIY Electric Car for one night on October 7th as part of our monthly After Dark series. As it turns out, the Exploratorium was born out of the DIY spirit. I'm looking forward to meeting the members of the DIY Electric Car Forum.

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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. We're now building the. While our boats were in international waters , Sweden ha s oversight of the airspace above that part of the Baltic Sea.) However, we did see some.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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MAEAA Web Links

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Battery {Returnto top of page} EV Plans Sources Built For Fun ElectricVehicles : DIY plans for karts and buggys Drive Electric: EV3 Tri-Electric ElectricBicycle (Slipstream) : DIY plans and parts for the Slipstream electricbike Robert Q. RileyEnterprises : Electric and hybrid DIY plans.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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Lotus Engineering and Harmon International, two heavyweights in their respective industries, have teamed up to create a new technology known as Electronic Sound Synthesis (ESS). Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise. Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise.

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