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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29

by Mark Frauenfelder
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 37m
English
Make: Community
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MAKING TROUBLE

By Saul Griffith, Omnivorous Inventor

MENTORing Kids into Makers

DARPA IS THE DEFENSE ADVANCED Research Projects Agency. It used to be called ARPA, and it was ARPA who funded the creation of the internet. Think of DARPA as the high-risk R&D sector of the U. S. Department of Defense. Sometimes the things they fund sound crazy, and sometimes they even are, but I personally think that they fund the more ambitious science and engineering projects in this country and get great results. Google might be claiming credit for the autonomous car, but remember that the guy who is running that program cut his teeth in the DARPA Grand Challenge ...

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