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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. I wondered whether I could build a more compact one using a geophone. 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're now building the. We'll soon commence building a full-scale BPM100 engine, which will ultimately incorporate a new guidance system for the rocket. Carsten Olsen.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. It connected to your phone. I was busy.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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A thin electrode is inserted under the skin with a needle and then connected to the monitor, which is. In each of these approaches, modeling work went far to create the conceptual background for building an artificial pancreas. The next step was to actually build it. Then there are the many, many DIY projects underway.

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