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A versatile autonomous environmental drone using a buoyancy engine 
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Datopolis is a board game by Ellen Broad and Jeni Tennison from the Open Data Institute, and as you might expect, it promotes the use of open data. Datopolis is a board game about building things — services, websites, devices, apps and research — using closed and open data. It’s set in a town called Sheridan, which is gradually declining as shops close, teachers quit, hedgehogs go extinct and pollution rises. The tools that players build contribute to making Sheridan a healthier, wealthier, happier place to live.
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For a limited time, you can buy the game on Game Crafter. You can also download the components from GitHub and print them yourself, because it’s all openly licensed, fittingly.
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Startup company Hyperloop One just test-drove a technology that may someday make it possible to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in only 30 minutes.
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Open sourcing and crowd souring engineering si the way to do it these days, apparently.
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These Low Cost Easily Programmable Circuit Boards can be Used for Projects in Many Academic Subject Areas I’m looking to share stories about teacher and student uses of these relatively inexpensive gadgets in their classrooms. For those not familiar with
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The remotely piloted aircraft world is full of technology created for civil purposes that end up being used by the military. A great example is the Scan Eagle originally a fishing tool. It was to be sent out to look for Tuna. A high-value catch. We all know what happened next. Boeing went fishing for …
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Engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute designed a simple underwater camera and lighting system that is made mostly of hardware store materials. And all for $3,000. Most oceanographic camera systems cost $5,000 to $20,000 and require ships and cranes to carry the heavy equipment.
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