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UAV to deliver aid in Syria

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This group uses the same UAV airframe that I bought a year ago from Johnny at team legit . Its being used for a good use to bring aid into Syria. The BBC video is worth a watch. The group has a non profit called the Syria Airlift Project . My current project Talon fixed wing has a Pixhawk flight controller, a downward facing Canon sx260, and wing extensions.  I'm still deciding if I want to run a large 4s or 3s battery.

The 3D printer in a lab.

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Dr. Steve Kurti's TTinvent allowed our lab to borrow his Afinia 3D printer for 2 months. In that time, we printed many useful things for the lab and the ideas keep coming! Here are a few of the successful prints we made: Links on Thingiverse: A clamp for the microscope A centrifuge tube holder Pipette rack Octopus A clamp to turn a 1967 microscope into a digital microscope! A centrifuge tube holder! Finally! A cuvette holder for that old HACH spectrophotometer. Many pipette holders. Octopus Surprise Attack!

Global Site for IWRM: Integrated Water Resources Management

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The Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (IRWMP) of the Coachella Valley was a complicated process. A single water user would have a hard time jumping in and making sense of it all. There are resources for Disadvantaged Communities (DACs) to use, but most people would require advocates or a third party to interpret all of the "IRWMPese".  How can this process be simplified to truly advocate with the DACs? The IRWMP process offered me a glimpse of the vast landscape we created for our unique drinking water delivery system and wastewater management system in California. The website for the Coachella Valley IRWMP says it all . There are a huge amount of drafts, presentations, participant lists, budgets and maps. Keep in mind that this is for only the Coachella Valley region ( about 5 water districts). My experience with the IRWMP was summarized in a  report on their website:  That report is referred to as an appendix and is on  page 127 of that appendix PDF .  Our rep

Glasses

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3D printed glasses from  thing 22128 . I modded them to say "Career Services"