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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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This month we’re celebrating the launch of our second PDF collection of Hands On articles, which IEEE members can download from IEEE Spectrum ’s website and share with friends. Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018).

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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. 2019 test of the ballute. This article appears in the December 2021 print issue as "The First Crowdfunded Astronaut.". Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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Tips: How to Make Money from Your Old Car

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This article may contain affiliate links. The global market for used vehicles stood at $1.323 billion in 2019, with a projected growth rate of 5.5 You don’t need a complete vehicle overhaul as a simple DIY quick fix and cleaning can transform a cheap piece into a priceless collector item. percent annually until 2027.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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Author’s Note and Trigger Warning: The succeeding sections of this article contains links to footage and other online references that may cause distress to readers. A DIY Solution. They are dying because cars crash into them while they’re parked on the side of the road. The Flaws of HumanPilot. Discretion is advised.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 2019. In December 2019, the FDA authorized the clinical use of Control-IQ for patients 14 and up, and our system thus became the first "interoperable automated insulin-dosing controller," one that can connect to various insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors.

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