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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

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Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. The lowest-frequency models generally available are for 4.5 I recently decided that I needed to give this a try.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We believe that spaceflight should be available to anyone who's willing to put in the time and effort. So on that small prototype, I had to sew 972 connections.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available. A thin electrode is inserted under the skin with a needle and then connected to the monitor, which is. Then there are the many, many DIY projects underway. worn against the body. Beta Bionics. Bigfood Biomedical.

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