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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 investigated what some other Web-connected Raspberry Shakes had recorded during that earthquake.

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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. The trickiest part, the double-curved "throat" section that connects the combustion chamber to the exhaust nozzle, requires computer-controlled machining equipment that we don't have.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. It connected to your phone. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Then on Monday I’d go back to Apple and work on the first iPhone. But it worked.

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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. Then there are the many, many DIY projects underway. Finally, in 1999, Medtronic introduced the first continuous glucose monitor portable enough for outpatient use. worn against the body. Beta Bionics. Bigfood Biomedical. Diabeloop.

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