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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

Cars That Think

If you do, the odds are that the chips inside the modem will have been designed by Broadcom Corp., Their first project was to design the worlds first chips for digital interactive television. Though he had managed to put it together, he had no idea how it worked. I had to design a communications processor box, he recalled.

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Opinion: Software-Defined Vehicles Will Be Awful

The Truth About Cars

Basically, the automotive sector wants to continue evolving the overarching idea, similar to how they advanced the vague premise of "mobility" over the last ten years with electrification and touchscreens. They’re already alleged to be designing mechanical components to fail early in an effort to force people to buy more vehicles.

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A Battered Honda Civic Si Grows Into a Formidable Type R

The Truth About Cars

Whether you're a Honda Civic diehard or just love DIY car projects, we hope this inspires your next build. I have no idea. The exhaust tip is hitting on the center section here and that's because the full race exhaust is designed for an FA5 Civic SI sedan. It's rear bumper design is completely different. And guess what?

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looking for inwheel hub motors

DIY Electric Car

Complex Engineering: Designers must find clever ways to keep the motor compact and light, or risk a clunky driving experience. In-wheel designs? I have no idea if this is new, possible, or maybe even common. Impact on Efficiency: Energy spent controlling that additional mass isn’t going toward actually propelling the car.

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Club Car’s 25 MPH ‘living room on wheels’ microcar just went modern

Electrek

The company announced this week the launch of a new lithium-ion battery option for the street-legal low-speed vehicle (LSV), giving the comfort-focused cruiser a performance boost over its older style lead acid batteries, which should now help match its futuristic design. Advertisement - scroll for more content “CRU Lithium is a game changer.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. 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. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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This DIY electric parade float chassis could be any vehicle you want it to be

Electrek

It seems like every new electric vehicle unveiling now starts with showing off a new ‘skateboard’ design , or the chassis of the vehicle that houses everything it needs to make it run. The engineer in me always thought it’d be fun to have just the bare skateboard, meaning you could go wild with your ideas of what to put on top.

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