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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

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s electric conversions spends about 100 days moving through 20 discrete shop bays, where it undergoes about 2,200 person-hours of meticulous restoration. The traction batteries are split, some being housed under the hood and others [shown at left during installation] going beneath the rear seating. Each of E.C.D.’s Automotive Design.

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Always Break Yolks: The Joy of Microwave Cooking

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As I write this month’s article, my house is a noisy, dusty construction zone. The ever evolving and revolving microwave oven My Radarange was installed by the previous homeowner in 1980 and had a decidedly vintage feel, but it was actually a third-generation model. I am renovating my kitchen, which was originally built in 1964.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

I continue to be an aspiring policy wonk on the solar financing issue known around the state as AB 811 financing, since we need it if we’re going to make it possible for people to install solar right now, instead of waiting till electric rates triple and the greenhouse gas situation makes it mandatory.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., in Rochester, NY. You’re crazy.”

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OLA S1 Electric Scooter Ownership Blog

Plug In India

My ramblings on the 2022 EV scene I have an electric cycle, which is an eAdicct conversion kit added to a Schnell 26 inch cycle. There is decent fast charging infrastructure being installed by many charge point operators. After reading some articles and speaking to people, he felt OLA Electric is a mess and wont deliver.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Underneath, EV electrical architectures share a lot in common, and our integrations are actually very straightforward, whether it’s an aftermarket accessory as a kit or, as we’re doing with Volvo Cars, an OEM-installed solution. Charged : What’s involved with installing the vehicle-side system? And it’s as simple as that.