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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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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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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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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.’

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In 2018, we were knee-deep in developing a far-out concept to grapple an asteroid with an electronic web, which would allow a network of hundreds or thousands of tiny robots to crawl across the surface as they characterized the asteroid's materials. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing.

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