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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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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. Making an impression at an engineering contest After completing the one-year language course at the University of Stavanger in 2016, Bekerytė enrolled in the school’s bachelor’s degree program in industrial automation and circuit design.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. To build his digital camera, Sasson scavenged a lens and an exposure mechanism from a Kodak XL55 movie camera. That didn’t deter Sasson, who continued to build more cameras for Kodak.

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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. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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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. But such testing is time consuming and costly. Beta Bionics. Bigfood Biomedical. Diabeloop. DreaMed Diabetes.

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