article thumbnail

RPM Act in Congress would legalize emission defeat devices, for racing only (supposedly)

Green Car Reports

It’s being called “DIY Dieselgate,” and it could make the air people breathe a lot dirtier. Race enthusiasts got worried early in 2016 when the EPA issued new.

Congress 127
article thumbnail

Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

Cars That Think

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. If I had a suitably sensitive seismometer, though, I’d be able to measure them. I recently decided that I needed to give this a try.

Panama 92
article thumbnail

Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

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. supporters are counting down until the historic day when an amateur astronaut will climb aboard a homemade rocket and wave goodbye to Earth, ready to take a giant leap for DIY-kind.

DIY 136
article thumbnail

From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

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.

Clean 91
article thumbnail

The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. So Sasson built a CCD into a camera with RAM to capture image data, which was then transferred to a cassette tape.

Store 101
article thumbnail

Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Abandon the project halfway through because it was too complicated? Soon our testers reported in: Installation went fine. People loved it. But it took about an hour to install. An hour was way too long. Nest Gets Googled.

Tahoe 92
article thumbnail

Top 7 Best, Classy and Fastest Electric Cars In Today?s World

DIY Electric Car

If you have purchased the 2016 version, it can get to that speed in just 8.4 When this car was presented in Geneva Motor Show 2016, there were some improvements that were made with the car. Well, let�s just say that it is also a good idea to honor those cars that the average Joe could actually purchase. Tesla Roadster. Front View.