What two years ago was more of a prototype project is today a fully formed business with real customers.
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Dr McKendry is working with Imperial College London, Cambridge Medical Innovations, Sphere Medical Ltd and BionanoConsulting on the three-year project to develop the prototype hand-held device for clinical trials.
The Sunshine to Petrol project is testing a prototype device called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (called CR5 for short) which turns CO2 into carbon monoxide which could then form part of a liquid fuel.
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One company I spoke with, Atlassian, has an impressively granular system where employees can graduate their project from hackathon demo to a multi-day prototype, which requires sign off from coworkers, to a short-term project, which requires sign off from a manager, to a major project, which requires signoff from an executive.
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Inspired by Michael Pollan and Clay Shirky, the project started with an open source prototype farm that was shared online.
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Maris spoke of Glass project lead Steve Lee and a later prototype that took photos every few seconds.
Perkins, writing in Boating International magazine, said he joined the project to take the Super Falcon from prototype to a fully functional craft.
In 1948, six Boeing engineers worked for weekend in a hotel room to produce a 33 page proposal, which included moving from turbo-prop to jet engines, and accompanied this proposal with a balsa-model prototype, in order to salvage a team project that was at the risk of failure.
The first prototype is ready and Epiphany is looking to Kickstarter to bring the project to fruition.
You can head past the break to watch the prototype in action, and check out the source link to peruse the project's funding page.
Razer had to change more than Project Fiona's name to stay under budget, of course -- the prototype's handlebar controllers have migrated to an optional gamepad dock.
The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (AKA the RoMeLa Project) at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech has designed and built a prototype robotic hand that is controlled and operated by compressed air.
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The scheme aims to enhance sixth form students academic and personal development and project activities involve visits to companies, university workshops and researching, designing, planning, producing prototype solutions.
The project has been in the works for years already, but Rafi recently managed to get a rudimentary prototype to fly a few feet off the ground, and has sparked some interest from Textron's Bell Helicopters for potential partnership.
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Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and France are working on a joint project through state-owned aeronautical companies and are in the final stages of developing an advanced armed drone prototype called the Dassault nEURon, from which the France plans to derive armed drones for its air force.
If designers have only their drawings or photographs of a real prototype to show, it will hopefully give backers a better idea of how far down the road the project is and whether the project owner really has the skill to pull it off.
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