Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. Ted Larson at Hasbro HQ in Rhode Island. in 2005 with Hasbro as our first customer.

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Rhode Island Google 2002 San Jose 95

Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

Design 113

Design Engine Parts Personal 113

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In the 1960s, the software for the Apollo guidance computer was stored in a woven substrate called core rope memory. One of the fibers is a piezoceramic nanocomposite fiber designed by Fibers@MIT, and the other is a polymer we harvested from commercial piezoelectric cabling, then modified to be suitable for fabric integration.

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MIT Environment Rhode Island Design 109